autohyponym

English

Examples
  • drink (“consume any potable liquid”) or
    drink (“consume alcoholic beverage”)
  • More: see Category:English autohyponyms

Etymology

From auto- +‎ hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym.

Noun

autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)

  1. 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.
    Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term
    Coordinate term: autohypernym

See also

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