autohyponym
Meanings
Plural: autohyponyms
Noun
- 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.
Origin / Etymology
From auto- + hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym.
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