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Word of the day - Nov 3: myonymy

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myonymy n 🔊

  1. (anatomy, obsolete, rare) A nomenclature of the muscles.

☞ The American singer Shirley Ellis released her song “The Name Game” this month in 1964.

Illustration for myonymy

A muscleman, seen from the front. Engraving, 1713, after a w Wellcome V0007795.jpg

A 1713 woodcut showing the muscles, numbered and labelled, of a male human being.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/November_3

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