OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36671

meronym

/ˈmɛɹənɪm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
merónimo
A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of…
The word "leaf" is a meronym of the word "tree".
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