Hyperonymy

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Hyperonymy is the semantic relation between a more general word and a more specific word. Tree is a hyperonym of oak, because the set of trees includes the set of oaks. Hyperonymy is the converse of hyponymy.

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Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics