anonym

plural anonyms

1. An anonymous person.

   The Psalter was translated into English, in verse, in the second half of the thirteenth century: [...]; again in prose, towards 1327, by an anonym, who has been wrongly believed to be William de Shoreham, a monk of Leeds priory: [...].

   1895, Jean Jules Jusserand, A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the Renaissance, page 207

   Synonyms: anon

2. nonstandardrareAn assumed or false name; a pseudonym.

   Synonyms: pseudonym · Antonyms: autonym, orthonym, alethonym

3. biologyA mere name; a name resting upon no diagnosis or other recognized basis.

   Antonyms: systematic name