heteronymous

US: (het′ə ron′ə məs)

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het•er•on•y•mous  (het′ə ron′ə məs), adj. 

1. Linguistics of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a heteronym.
2. having different names, as a pair of correlatives:
   Father and son are heteronymous relatives.

• Late Greek heteró̄nymos having a different name. See heteronym, -ous
• 1725–35

het′er•on′y•mous•ly, adv.