misnominal

Etymology
, or.

Adjective

 * 1)  Being a misnomer.
 * 2) * 1859, John Henneberry Greene, William Doyle (printer, Cincinnati.), A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography: Physical, Social, Historical and Biographical, for Schools and Families, page 14:
 * .For a similar reason many of the peninsulas are named islands. Is not this feature peculiar to Irish nomenclature? By no means. &quot;Portland Isle&quot; in Dorsetshire (South England) is no island at all: and &#39;&#39;gulf,&quot; in the nomenclature of southern Europe, is  frequently a misnomer of this description. Every language has little misnominal vagaries

Synonyms

 * misnomial