meronym

meronym

(ˈmɛrəʊˌnɪm) n (Linguistics) a part of something used to refer to the whole, such as faces meaning people, as in they've seen a lot of faces come and go[from Greek meros part + onuma name]

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meronym - a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"part nameword - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

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