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What are hyponyms?

What are hyponyms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of hyponym
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English is rich in hyponyms, and much English poetry in several different historical periods makes rich use of them.
As we saw in Chapter 7, we can appeal to entailment in order to define the relation between a superordinate term and its hyponyms.
Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.
A hyponymic relationship can be observed between inimene 'human being' as a hyperonym and all the rest of the words analysed, which are all hyponyms of inimene.
First of all, the species were structured hierarchically into hyperonyms and hyponyms with the help of the Modern English dictionaries mentioned below.
The arrangement usually proceeds from hyperonyms to respective hyponyms.

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