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Hyponymic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Being a hyponym. not-comparable

    "The word dog is hyponymic to the word mammal."

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to hyponyms. not-comparable

    "That other thesaurus labels the hyponymic or hypernymic relation more clearly than this one does."

Etymology

From hyponym + -ic. By surface analysis, hyp- + -onym + -ic = hypo- + -nym + -ic.

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