autohyponymous

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, auto- +‎ hypo- +‎ -nym +‎ -ous.

Adjective

autohyponymous (not comparable)

Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another.

Synonyms

autohyponymic

Coordinate terms

cohyponymic, cohyponymous
comeronymic, comeronymous
hyponymic, hyponymous
More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Derived terms

autohyponymously

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