Hypernymy and hyponymy are the semantic relations between a generic term (hypernym) and a specific instance of it (hyponym). The hypernym is also called a supertype, umbrella term, or blanket term. The hyponym is a See more

Computer science often terms this relationship an "is-a" relationship. For example, the phrase "Red is-a color" can be used to describe the hyponymic relationship between red and color.
Hyponymy is the most frequently encoded relation among See more

• Snow, Rion; Jurafsky, Daniel; Ng, Andrew Y. (2004). "Learning syntactic patterns for automatic hypernym discovery" (PDF). Advances in Neural Information … See more

Hyperonym and hypernym mean the same thing, with both in use by linguists. The form hypernym interprets the -o- of hyponym as a part of … See more

• Contrast set
• Has-a
• Genus proximum
• Lexical semantics
• Meronymy and holonymy See more

• Hypernym at Everything2.com See more