Meaning

2 senses
  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.

Origin

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

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

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