Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or bearing two names.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Binominal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
binomial
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Examples
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Expect not I should reckon up [the different names of Norwich textiles], because daily increasing, and many of them are binominous, as which, when they began to tire in sale, are quickened with a new name.
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Harman, of Exeter, saying, "it seems as if it were given to binominous bishops to be impairers of their churches."
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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