homo-, hom- +

1. Similarity of form with different fundamental structure; specifically, superficial resemblance between organisms of different groups due to evolutionary convergence.
2. Resemblance in external characteristics, while widely different in fundamental structure.

In biology, imitative resemblance between unrelated organisms; adaptive mimicry without structural similarity.

1. A word identical with another in pronunciation, but differing from it in spelling and meaning; such as, fair and fare, read and reed; also, called a homophone and a homograph.
2. A word identical with another in spelling and pronunciation, but differing from it in origin and meaning; such as butter, "the food", and butter, "one who butts".
3. The same name or word used to denote different things.
4. In philology, applied to words having the same sound, but differing in meaning; opposite of heteronym and synonym.
5. A person or thing having the same name as another; a “namesake”.

1. A word that is spelled or pronounced in the same way as one or more other words but has a different meaning.
2. Someone with the same name as another.
3. In biology, a taxonomic name that is the same as one already designating a different species or genus and cannot therefore be used.

Identity of a sound or name with a diversity of sense; ambiguity.

Identical in nature.

The sameness of feeling; sympathy.

Having the petals alike or the same.

1. Actually, this combination of Greek elements means, “A fondness for doing the same thing over and over, or for repetition”.
2. Gay or homosexual.
3. Being actively concerned about the rights and the welfare of gay or homosexual people.
4. Another term for a homosexual.

An excessive hatred of or fear of monotony [doing the same thing over and over]; also said to be a fear of or intense apprehension or hatred of homosexuality or homosexuals in general. Such references should be spoken of or written as homosexualphobia.

1. A fear or hatred of boredom; that is, a fear of doing the same thing over and over again.
2. Some people are incorrectly using these terms to mean: showing an irrational hatred, disapproval, or fear of homosexuality, gay, and lesbian people, and their culture; however, it should be homosexualphobia.

1. One of two or more words pronounced alike ("sound-alikes") but different in meaning or derivation and spelling (as all and awl; to, too, and two; rite, write, right, and wright; as well as, cite, sight, and site); also called a homonym.
2. A character or group of characters pronounced the same as another character or group.

1. In linguistics, sharing the same sound.
2. In music, relating to parts of music in which they move together in simple harmonization.

1. The quality of having the same pronunciation as one or more other words with different origins and meanings.
2. Music of a largely chordal style in which there is no independence of voice parts, but rather a simple harmonization of a melody.

1. Of the same race.
2. Similarity due to common ancestry.