ENGLISH LEXICOLOGY

7.4 Sense Categories: Meronymy

 

The fourth kind of semantic relation is meronymy (from Greek meros = part and onoma = name), which is the semantic relationship between parts of something to the whole. The ‘part of’ relation can be illustrated in the following diagram:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thorn, leaf, root, and bud are meronyms of the holonym (Greek holon = whole and onoma = name) rose.