autohyponym

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ hyponym, morphologically auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym.

Noun

autohyponym (plural autohyponyms)

1. A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense 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)

See also

• strictly speaking
• stricto sensu