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Wiktionary

  1. n. A term that denotes a part of the whole that is denoted by another term.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a word that names a part of a larger whole

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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  • “Badulescu, and Moldovan (2003) present an algorithm for learning meronym from a corpus.”

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  • kawy Brim and crown are meronyms of hat. Aug 28, 2010

  • mcritz The example in OED is faces being used to describe people. E.g. “I see several familiar faces present.�?

    Meronym—what a wonderful word! Feb 9, 2009

‘meronym’ has been looked up 2110 times, loved by 2 people, added to 15 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 14.