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Her name is an ironic misnomer, as her life is joyless.
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The term water base is a generally accepted misnomer.
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In a sense, cross-border languages is a misnomer -- the speakers did not divide themselves.
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Thus, with cladistics there is no longer a transition between established groups, and the term transitional fossils is a misnomer.
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Silk noil is also called raw silk, although that is a misnomer.
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Thus, riboflavin is not technically a nucleotide; the name "flavin adenine dinucleotide" is a misnomer.
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However, this is a misnomer, since elephantiasis literally translates to a disease caused by elephants.
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However, the latter term is a misnomer: synthetic color-change sapphires are, technically, not synthetic alexandrites but rather alexandrite "simulants".
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Misnomers often arise because the thing named received its name long before its true nature was known.
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The areas name is a misnomer: there aren't any real caves, only holes in an impressive talus field below a series of cliffs.
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