Nonsensical game names interpreted by online dictionaries
Defining the undefinable
Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth
Dictionary.com suggests: Homogamy (interbreeding of individuals wiꦐth like 🎀characteristics)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Ischemia (deficient supply 🉐of blood to a body🍌 part that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood)
Yggdra Union: We'll Never Fight Alone
Dictionary.com suggests: Gotra (a Hindu claღn tracing its paternal lin🧸eage from a common ancestor, usually a saint or sage)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Hydra (a many-headed serpent or monster🦄 in Greek mythology)
Hexyz Force
Dictionary.com suggests: Hexes (a witchs spells or charms)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Hexose (a monosacℱcharide, such as glucose, containing six carbon atoms in a molecuꦿle)
Virtual Hydlide
Dictionary.com suggests: Hydride (a binary compound forme🌠d by hydrogen and another, usually more electropositive, element or group)
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Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Alidade💟 (a part of a surveying instrument consisting of t🌸he telescope and its attachments)
BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge
Dictionary.com suggests: Blazon (to set forth conspicuously or publicly; display; procla🏅im)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Blazing (♋of outstanding power, speed, heat, or intensity)
DoDonPachi
Dictionary.com suggests: Gordon Pasha (a 19th century Brit🐻ish general and administrator in Chinꦅa and Egypt)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Daytona Beach (a city in northeast Florida)
Espgaluda
Dictionary.com suggests: Escalade (a scaling or mounting by means of ladders, especially in an assault 🍸upon a fortified place)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Spatulate (shaped like a spatula)
Droplitz
Dictionary.com suggests: Droplets (little drops)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Drꦍop🧸light (an electric light suspended by a cord or on a portable extension)
BONUS ROUND
Double trouble! Two made-up words for the p🌺rice of one! Its a neꦓologism extravaganza!
Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy
Dictionary.com suggests: Isidia (coralloid outgrowths from the thallus in certain lichens)
Dictionary.com suggests: Duodecimo (a book size determined by printing on she⭕ets folded✃ to form 12 leaves, or 24 pages)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Dissuade (to advise a person against something)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Duodecimal (of, relating𒁃 to, or proceeding by twelve or the scale of twelves)
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