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  1. A systematic name applied to an undetermined group of animals or plants, and thus not fully or finally estabished. I have listed 485 names that were proposed between 1753, the first edition of Linnæus's ‘Species Plantarum,’ and 1821, including the first volume of Fries's ‘Systema Mycologicum.’ Of these, 242, or one half, are to be rejected for various reasons. Some are hyponyms, never having been associated with a recognizable binomial species. Science, March 25, 1904, p. 509.

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  • Psycholinguistic research has shown that the receiver naturally associates a word with its opposite, e.g. "man - woman," a hyponym, i.e. a word semantically subordinate, e.g. "fruit - apple" or a synonym.
  • Automatic Thesaurus Generation  Hearst (1992) presents an algorithm that can automatically generate a thesaurus or dictionary:  Learning hyponym, meronym relations and more. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Greek ὑπό, under, + ὁνομα, ο+νυμα, name.
 

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