MERONYM

meronym, part name

(noun) a word that names a part of a larger whole; “‘brim’ and ‘crown’ are meronyms of ‘hat’”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

meronym (plural meronyms)

(semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

Synonym: partonym

Antonym: holonym

Holonyms

• semantic network

• thesaurus

Coordinate terms

• hypernym

• hyponym

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂ­a Municipal de ChinchinĂĄ (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂ­var, ChinchinĂĄ, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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