autoholonym

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word that is a holonym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader subsense that denotes a whole comprising the part (portion) that the stricter main sense denotes.

Word forms

autoholonym autoholonyms

Etymology

From auto- + holonym; by surface analysis, auto- + holo- + -nym.

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