autohyponym

English

Etymology

auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym

Noun

autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)

1. A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter sense that is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

Examples
cow (“any bovine”) or cow (“female bovine”) smell (“omit any odor”) or smell (“omit bad odor”) More: see Category:English autohyponyms

Related terms

• autohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy
• cohyponym (sharing a hypernym)
• comeronym (sharing a holonym)