The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree".
Source: wiktionary
Meronym
//ˈmɛɹənɪm//
Synonyms for "meronym" (4 found)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriescoordinate
3 entriesderived
4 entrieshas context
1 entriesholonym
2 entriesis a
1 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 18 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- meroniem noun (word denoting part of whole)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мероним noun (word denoting part of whole)
Catalan
1 entries- merònim noun (word denoting part of whole)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 分體詞 /分体词 noun (word denoting part of whole)
Danish
1 entries- meronym noun (word denoting part of whole)
Finnish
2 entries- meronyymi noun (word denoting part of whole)
- osakäsite noun (word denoting part of whole)
French
1 entries- méronyme noun (word denoting part of whole)
German
3 entries- Bestandsbegriff noun (word denoting part of whole)
- Meronym noun (word denoting part of whole)
- Teilbegriff noun (word denoting part of whole)
Greek
1 entries- μερώνυμο noun (word denoting part of whole)
Hungarian
1 entries- meronima noun (word denoting part of whole)
Indonesian
1 entries- meronimi noun (word denoting part of whole)
Italian
1 entries- meronimo noun (word denoting part of whole)
Polish
1 entries- meronim noun (word denoting part of whole)
Portuguese
2 entries- merónimo noun (word denoting part of whole)
- merônimo noun (word denoting part of whole)
Russian
1 entries- меро́ним noun (word denoting part of whole)
Spanish
1 entries- merónimo noun (word denoting part of whole)
Swedish
1 entries- meronym noun (word denoting part of whole)
Vietnamese
2 entries- phân danh noun (word denoting part of whole)
- từ phân noun (word denoting part of whole)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
Source: wiktionary
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