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tau·to·nym

(tô′tə-nĭm′)
n.
A taxonomic designation, such as Gorilla gorilla, in which the genus and species names are the same, commonly used in zoology but no longer in botany.
tau·ton′y·mous (tô-tŏn′ə-məs) adj.
tau·ton′y·my n.
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tautonym

(ˈtɔːtənɪm)
n
(Biology) biology a taxonomic name in which the generic and specific components are the same, as in Rattus rattus (black rat)
[C20: from Greek tautonymos. See tauto-, -onym]
ˌtautoˈnymic, tautonymous adj
tauˈtonymy n
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tau•to•nym

(ˈtɔ tə nɪm)

n.
a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Tyrannus tyrannus (the eastern kingbird).
[1895–1900; < Greek tautṓnymos of the same name =tauto- tauto- + -ōnymos named]
tau•ton′y•my, n.
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tautonym

a botanical or zoological name in which the two terms, the generic name and the specific, are the same (a practice no longer approved by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature). — tautonymic, tautonymous, adj.
See also: Classification
a botanical or zoological name in which two terms are combined, the generic name and the specific, with both being the same. (a practice no longer approved by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.)
See also: Botany, Names
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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As before, Noah turns away hyphenated words, coinages, palindromes, tautonyms and pair isograms.
Noah's vowels
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Derived Palindromes
The first 10x10 word square, which appeared in 1921, was constructed entirely of tautonyms (words like TANGATANGA, which have two repeated five-letter parts) and so is not very satisfying.
Challenge problems
* * * Back to Susan's 15-169 article, her 'tautophones' as an alternative to 'nautonyms' fails because it also encompasses most true (letteral) tautonyms and doesn't indicate that nautonyms are not.
The nautonym story continues
This story began over a year ago on page 106 of the May 2014 issue of Word Ways when Anil challenged me to find what he called NAUTONYMS, "sounded but not spelled tautonyms like RETREAT".
The nautonym story
Returning to uncapitalised homophonic tautonyms, the English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) includes DEEDY (industrious), PEEPY (drowsy) and TEATY (peevish), while Chambers Dictionary has (screaming) MEEMIE, a hysterical person, and Webster's 3rd has EASIES, stops rowing.
Kickshaws
They are correct, being phonetic tautonyms according to the Oxford English Dictionary's phonetics.
Colloquy
Numerical Tautonyms such as GULP (G + U = 28 and L + P also = 28) have appeared in previous issues of Word Ways.
Functional Tautonyms
However, I'm not familiar with any dialect that would pronounce Susan's several-y ending words (lily etc) as tautonyms. To my mixed US-Australian ear, they all combine a short i with a long e sound.
Kickshaws

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