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plural hyponyms
(semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word. quotations examples
Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.
1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 86