Difference between revisions of "Hyponymy"

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Hyponymy is the semantic relation between a more specific word and a more general word. Dog is a hyponym of animal, because all dogs are also animals, but not vice versa. Hyponymy is the converse of hyperonymy.

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Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics