partonym
Examples
“Furthermore, we infer that the kicking was done with one of Mary's feet, since we know⟳ that Mary is a human and humans have⟳ feet, or, to put⟳ it differently, the script MARY inherits the partonyms of its hyperonym HUMAN.”
“A word or lexical item indicating that it is 'part-of' some whole. Thus, "leg" is a body partonym, and "root" a plant⟳ partonym. Thus, partonymy refers to the phenomenon of referring to parts of a whole through specialised terms.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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