autohyponymous

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English

Etymology

By surface analysis, auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym +‎ -ous.

Adjective

autohyponymous (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another.

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