synonymous

adjective

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Pronunciation: /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ / /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/

Etymology: From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.

Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
“He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.”
“Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.”
Of, or being a synonym.
Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.