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. |