Taxonymy

Origin

en + -taxonym + y

Full definition of taxonymy

Noun

1. The relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.
• 2004, William Croft & ‎D. Alan Cruse , Cognitive Linguistics , 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.
• 2013, R. Green, ‎C.A. Bean, & ‎Sung Hyon Myaeng , The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective , 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.
• 2015, Žižka , Modern Computational Models of Semantic Discovery in Natural Language , 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.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with taxonomy.