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Six example sentences with misnomer, each labelled with its topic.
Sweetbread is a misnomer, since the dish contains no sugar and no dough of any kind whatsoever.
Cooking
Calling the peanut a nut is a misnomer, because it grows underground on a plant related to beans.
Science
The genre label is a misnomer here, since the game has no combat and plays more like a gardening simulator.
Gaming
The English horn is a double misnomer, since it is neither English nor a horn but a lower cousin of the oboe.
Music
Greenland is a famous misnomer, since visitors find far more ice than green anywhere outside a few summer valleys.
Travel
Morning sickness is a misnomer, as many patients tell their doctors, because the nausea can arrive at any hour.
Medicine
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