MISNOMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misnomer mean? 

• MISNOMER (noun)
  The noun MISNOMER has 1 sense:

1. an incorrect or unsuitable name

  Familiarity information: MISNOMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISNOMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An incorrect or unsuitable name

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("misnomer" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

 Context examples 

However, substances containing N-glycosidic bonds, where the anomeric carbon is bound to some other group via a nitrogen atom, are called glycosylamines; the term N-glycoside is considered a misnomer by IUPAC and is discouraged.

(Glycoside, NCI Thesaurus)

Biochemistry of carbohydrates, aldehydic or ketonic derivative of polyhydric alcohols, the name being derived from the fact that the most common examples of such compounds have formulas that may be written Cn(H2O)n (e.g., glucose, C6(H2O)6; sucrose, C12(H2O)11), although they are not true hydrates and the name is in that sense a misnomer.

(Glycobiology, NCI Thesaurus)