taxonymy

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noun

The relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.

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Meanings

nountaxonymy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.

    The proposal in connection with taxonymy is that a taxonym must (a) further specify a highlighted feature of the hypernym and (b) must similarly highlight it.

    2013, R. Green, C.A. Bean, Sung Hyon Myaeng, The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, →ISBN, page 15
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    According to the approach to word meaning adopted here, both the core of a category and the relation of taxonymy should in principle be construals, subject to contextual constraints.

    2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, →ISBN, page 150

    Finally, the linguistic expression A kind/type of used as a diagnostic test in the taxonymy relation is treated by Wierzbicka (1996) as a lexical expression of semantic primitives for representing taxonomy.

    2015, Žižka, Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language, →ISBN, page 57

Origin

From taxonym + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with taxonymy

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APA

taxonymy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taxonymy

MLA

“taxonymy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taxonymy. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “taxonymy,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taxonymy.

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