autohyponym

== English == === Etymology === From auto- +‎ hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym. === Noun === autohyponym (plural autohyponyms) 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. Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term Coordinate term: autohypernym ==== Related terms ==== autohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy cohyponym (sharing a hypernym) comeronym (sharing a holonym) ==== See also ====