同どう名めい

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

same name; of the same name

Used when two or more people, places, works, or things share the same name. Often appears as 同名の or 同名のもの.

• 彼かれは私わたしと同どう名めいです。

  He has the same name as me.

• 同どう名めいの映えい画がが去きょ年ねん公こう開かいされた。

  A movie of the same name was released last year.

noun

homonym

Only with reading どうめい

Biology term for a name that is spelled the same as another but refers to a different taxon. Restricted to the reading どうめい.

• この学がく名めいは同どう名めいとして扱あつかわれる。

  This scientific name is treated as a homonym.