| 单词 |
hyponym |
| 释义 |
hyponym|ˈhaɪpəʊnɪm|
[f. hypo- + Gr. ὄνοµα name.]
1. Taxonomy. A name made invalid by the lack of adequate contemporary description of the taxon it was intended to designate.
1904Bull. Torrey Bot. Club XXXI. 258 A specific or subspecific name is a hyponym when it has not been connected with a description identifiable by diagnostic characters or by reference to a type specimen, figure or locality. 1904Science 25 Mar. 509/2 Some are hyponyms, never having been associated with a recognizable binomial species. 1946D. B. Swingle Textbk. Syst. Bot. (ed. 3) ix. 225 A name not so described or identified is a hyponym and nonvalid for the group for which it was intended. Ibid. 226 Homonyms and hyponyms result in the formation of synonyms, for these names must be replaced by usable terms, leaving them as synonyms.
2. Linguistics. One of two or more words related by hyponymy.
1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics iv. 69, I say that scarlet is a hyponym of, or is included in, red. 1965Language XLI. 509 Hyponyms are placed under the head word. |
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