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autohyponym
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English
Etymology
From auto- + hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym.
Noun
autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)
- A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.
- Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term
- Coordinate term: autohypernym
Related terms
- autohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy
- cohyponym (sharing a hypernym)
- comeronym (sharing a holonym)
See also
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