autohyponymous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another.

Word forms

autohyponymous

Etymology

By surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym + -ous.

Synonyms

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