As we saw in Chapter 7, we can appeal to entailment in order to define the relation between a superordinate term and its hyponyms.
First of all, the species were structured hierarchically into hyperonyms and hyponyms with the help of the Modern English dictionaries mentioned below.
Then there are a number of linguistic and visual puns, including plays with homophony, hyponyms, homonyms.
Meanwhile, lexical relations deal with sense relations like synonyms, antonyms, polysemy, hyponyms, acronyms, etc.
English is rich in hyponyms, and much English poetry in several different historical periods makes rich use of them.
Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.
