hyponymic
adjEtymology From hyponym + -ic. By surface analysis, hyp- + -onym + -ic = hypo- + -nym + -ic.
1
Being a hyponym.
- The word dog is hyponymic to the word mammal.
2
Of or pertaining to hyponyms.
- That other thesaurus labels the hyponymic or hypernymic relation more clearly than this one does.
- Synonyms
- hyponymous
- Antonyms
- hypernymic, hypernymous
- Derived terms
- hyponymically
- Related terms
- hyponymously
- Coordinate terms
- synonymic, synonymous, More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations