automeronym
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English
Etymology
From auto- + meronym; by surface analysis, auto- + mero- + -nym.
Noun
automeronym (plural automeronyms)
- 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.
- Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term
- Coordinate term: autoholonym
Related terms
- automeronymy
- comeronym (sharing a holonym)
See also
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