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Definition of Hyponym
1. Noun. A word that is more specific than a given word.
Definition of Hyponym
1. Noun. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hyponym
1. a word that denotes a subcategory [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyponym
Literary usage of Hyponym
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"When the natural group to which the name applies is undetermined (hyponym).
(a) A specific name is a hyponym when it has not been connected with a ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"hyponym. 1/90.] Herbs, sometimes shrubby, and mostly acaulescent, with odd-pinnate
leaves, and racemose or spicate flowers. Calyx-teeth nearly equal. ..."
3. North American Flora by New York Botanical Garden (1905)
"13; hyponym. 1755) ; Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 5. 1891. ... 1: 113 ; hyponym. 1755) ;
Kearney, Bull. Torrey Club 21 : 173. 1894. Shrubs, with opposite leaves and ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"This generic name, published without a type in 1879, and therefore a hyponym,
must give way to the generic name ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"(3) Homonym, previously used for another genus or only a variation in spelling
of the name of another genus. (4) hyponym, not as- sociable with a ..."
6. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1920)
"1907, as hyponym. Tall, 2 to 5 meters high, more or less branching, pale green,
a little glaucous; branches i to 1.5 dm. in diameter, 4 to 8-ribbed; ..."
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