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Definition

A meaning relationship between words, where the reference of some word X is included in the reference of some other word Y. X is then said to be a hyponym of Y and conversely Y is said to be a hypernym of X.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson