alleryStart learning →Words like mouth, meaning a face opening or a cave opening, are called what?
ACapitonyms
BHeterographs
CHomophenes
DPolysemes
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Polysemes
Polysemes have one spelling with distinct but related meanings, as mouth does.
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