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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hyponymic en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Being a hyponym.
    • The word dog is hyponymic to the word mammal.
  2. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
    • That other thesaurus labels the hyponymic or hypernymic relation more clearly than this one does.

Antonyms

hypernymic · hypernymous

Coordinates

synonymous · synonymic · More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Deriveds

hyponymically

Relateds

hyponymously

Synonyms

hyponymous