automeronym

English

Examples
  • arm (“whole limb”) or
    arm (“shoulder to elbow”)
  • door (“doorframe plus swinging part”) or
    door (“swinging part alone”)

Etymology

From auto- +‎ meronym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ mero- +‎ -nym.

Noun

automeronym (plural automeronyms)

  1. A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.
    Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term
    Coordinate term: autoholonym

See also

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