autohyponymous

Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another.

Adjective

  1. Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another.

Origin

By surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym + -ous.

Synonyms

autohyponymic