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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