polyseme

As nouns the difference between polyseme and homophone

is that polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings while homophone is a word which is pronounced the same as another word but differs in spelling or'' meaning ''or origin, for example: carat, caret, carrot, and karathttp://wwwmerriam-webstercom/dictionary/homophonehttp://wwwaskoxfordcom/concise_oed/homophone?view=uk.

As an adjective polyseme

is (linguistics) having multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between polyseme and polyreme

is that polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings while polyreme is (nautical) a very large galley with more than five rows of oars on each side.

As an adjective polyseme

is (linguistics) having multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between polyseme and polyneme

is that polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings while polyneme is any of several tropical foodfish, of family polynemidae , that have long filaments below the pectoral fin; the threadfins.

As an adjective polyseme

is (linguistics) having multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between polysome and polyseme

is that polysome is a polyribosome while polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings.

As an adjective polyseme is

(linguistics) having multiple meanings.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and polyseme

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while polyseme is (linguistics) a word or phrase that has multiple meanings.

As an adjective polyseme is

(linguistics) having multiple meanings.