automeronym
Meanings
noun
- A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.
Word forms
Etymology
From auto- + meronym; by surface analysis, auto- + mero- + -nym.
Related words
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