HYPONYM

In linguistics, a 'hyponym' is a word or phrase whose semantic range is included within that of another word. For example, ''scarlet'', ''vermilion'', ''carmine'', and ''crimson'' are all hyponyms of ''red'' (their hypernym).
According to Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman's ''Introduction to Language'' (ISBN 0-03-018682-X), hyponyms are a set of related words whose meaning are specific instances of a more general word (so, for example, ''red'', ''white'', ''blue'', etc., are hyponyms of ''colour''). 'Hyponymy' is thus the relationship between a general term such as ''polygon'' and specific instances of it, such as ''triangle''.

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★ -onym

★ Sub- and Subcategory

★ Meronymy