autohyponym
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English
Etymology
From auto- + hyponym, morphologically auto- + hypo- + -nym.
Noun
autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)
- A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that is entirely a subset of a broader sense.
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Related terms
- autohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy
- cohyponym (sharing a hypernym)
- comeronym (sharing a holonym)