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What is the adjective for homophones?

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homophonic
  1. (linguistics) Having the same sound; being homophones.
  2. (music) Having a single, accompanied, melodic line; not polyphonic.
  3. Examples:
    1. “French choral music of this time is often in a deceptively simple homophonic style.”
      “I also encourage students to focus on how the melody and harmony interrelate, particularly in homophonic textures.”
      “In Experiment 1, the preview of target characters consisted of targets or of graphemically similar, homophonic, or dissimilar characters.”
homophonous
  1. (phonetics) Having the same pronunciation.
  2. (music) Homophonic; sounding the same.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The relative pronoun could be homophonous with a complementizer, and this complementizer could cause mutation while the relative pronoun did not.”
      “Chinese is by reputation much more homophonous than English.”
      “The Lyons family — the fact that their name is homophonous with carnivorous beasts is no accident — is the playwright Nicky Silver's latest pitch-black creation, and his knack for the bleakly funny is unerring.”
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