Meronym

Origin

- + onym + -, from Ancient Greek μέρος (meros, "part") + ὄνομα (onoma, "name").

Noun

1. (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that it is a part of."Wheels" is a meronym of the word "automobile".
• 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database,

• If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

Antonyms

• holonym

Derived terms

• meronymic
• meronymy
• meronymous

Holonyms

• semantic network
• thesaurus