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Eponymous : adj : being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym [syn:
eponymic]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Eponymous : \E*pon"y*mous\, a. [Gr. ?; 'epi` upon, to _ ? for ?
name.]
Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people,
country, and the like.
What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the
Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous
persons are to be canceled as fictions? --Grote.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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