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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A systematic name applied to an undetermined group of animals or plants, and thus not fully or finally established.

Wiktionary

  1. n. semantics A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (linguistics) a word that is more specific (less abstract) than a given word; a term designating a class which is a subtype of given word; a subcategory; a subtype. Inverse of hypernym.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a word that is more specific than a given word

Etymologies

  1. hypo- + -onym (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Automatic Thesaurus Generation  Hearst (1992) presents an algorithm that can automatically generate a thesaurus or dictionary:  Learning hyponym, meronym relations and more.”

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