Ho*mon"y*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. homonymie.] 1. Sameness of name or
designation; identity in relations. Holland.
Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons.
Fuller.
2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are
different; ambiguity.
Ho`mo*ˆr"gan (?). [Homo- + organ.] Same as Homoplast.
Ho`mo*ou"si*an (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; being, essence,
substance.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who
accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same
essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.
Ho`mo*ou"si*an, a. Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the
doctrines they held.
Hom"o*phone (?), n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.] 1. A letter or
character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.
2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in
meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite,
write, right, and wright.
{ Ho`mo*phon"ic (?), Ho*moph"o*nous (?), } a. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same +
&?; sound, tone: cf. F. homophone.] 1. (Mus.) (a) Originally, sounding
alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. (b) Now used for plain
harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which
the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.
2. Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as,
bay and bey.
Ho*moph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. homophonie.] 1. Sameness of
sound.
2. (Mus.) (a) Sameness of sound; unison. (b) Plain harmony, as opposed
to polyphony. See Homophonous.
Ho`mo*phyl"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Relating to homophily.
Ho*moph"y*ly (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; a clan.] (Biol.) That form of
homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition
to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Haeckel.
Ho"mo*plas`my (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; anything formed, fr. &?; to
form, mold.] (Biol.) Resemblance between different plants or animals,
in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to
descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding
circumstances.
Hom"o*plast (?), n. (Biol.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan
of Haeckel; -- also called homoˆrgan.
Ho`mo*plas"tic (?), a. [Homo- + plastic.] Of or pertaining to
homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
Ho"mo*plas`ty (?), n. [Homo- + plasty.] (Biol.) The formation of
homologous tissues.
Ho*mop"la*sy (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; to form, mold.] (Biol.) See
Homogeny.
Ho`mo*pol"ic (?), a. [Homo- + pole.] (Biol.) In promorphology,
pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the
stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See
Promorphology.
Ho*mop"ter (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Homoptera.
||Ho*mop"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the same, like + &?;
||wing.] (Zoˆl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings
||are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the
||cicada. See Hemiptera.
Ho*mop"ter*an (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An homopter.
Ho*mop"ter*ous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.
Ho"mo*styled (?), a. [Homo- + style.] (Bot.) Having only one form of
pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.
Ho`mo*sys*tem"ic (?), a. [Homo- + systemic.] (Biol.) Developing, in the
case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into
which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.
||Ho`mo*tax"i*a (?), n. [NL.] Same as Homotaxis.
{ Ho`mo*tax"i*al (?), Ho`mo*tax"ic (?), } a. (Biol.) Relating to
homotaxis.
||Ho`mo*tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the same + &?; arrangement.]
||(Biol.) Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of
||heterotaxy.
Ho"mo*tax`y (?), n. Same as Homotaxis.
{ Ho`mo*ther"mic (?), Ho`mo*ther"mous (?), } a. [Homo- + Gr. &?; heat.]
(Physiol.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hÊmatothermal.
Ho*mot"o*nous (?), a. [L. homotonus, Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; tone.]
Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.
{ Ho*mot"ro*pal (?), Ho*mot"ro*pous (?), } a. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same +
&?; turn, fr. &?; to turn: cf. F. homotrope.] 1. Turned in the same
direction with something else.