eponymous

eponymous
/euh pon"euh meuhs/, adj.
giving one's name to a tribe, place, etc.: Romulus, the eponymous founder of Rome.
[1840-50; < Gk epónymos giving name. See EP-, -ONYM, -OUS]

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