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metanym

(taxonomy) A name that is rejected because a valid name (based on another member) already exists for the same group.



  metonymy

  (rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object. 
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