het·er·on·y·mous (h t  -r n -ms)adj. 1. Being, relating to, or of the nature of a heteronym. 2. Being different names or terms but having correspondence or interrelationship, as mother and daughter. [From Late Greek heter  numos, from Greek, with a different denominator : Greek hetero-, hetero- + Greek onoma, name; see n -men- in Indo-European roots.] |
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