Without the advantage of genetic insight these early collectors and taxonomists named these many size, shape, and color forms as distinct taxa giving us a plethora of plant names that have only recently been sorted out reducing a long list of synonymy to four domesticated species. (ushotstuff.com)
One might question the efficacy of having a variety of regulatory frameworks where a company may meet one state's regulation but be unable to meet another's due to a lack of legislative synonymy. (ethnews.com)
Every species has, or should have, a type specimen, so only if the type specimen of Homo habilis (which is Olduvai Hominid 7, or OH7 for short) is found to belong to some other species does the name Homo habilis lapse into synonymy. (talkorigins.org)