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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

Etymology

From auto- + hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym.

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