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meronym

(ˈmɛrəʊˌnɪm)
n
(Linguistics) a part of something used to refer to the whole, such as faces meaning people, as in they've seen a lot of faces come and go
[from Greek meros part + onuma name]
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Noun1.meronym - a word that names a part of a larger wholemeronym - a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
part name
word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
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Spearman test applied to the data yielded the following results: i) a negative correlation between types and word repetition (r-0.298, p < .05), meaning that as the number of lexical types decreases, the number of word repetition increases; ii) a positive but moderate to low correlation between production of lexical types and use of antonyms (r 0.274, p < .05), meaning that as the number of lexical types increases, antonyms also increase; iii) no correlation was found between lexical types and other categories of lexical reiteration: superordinates/hyponyms (r = -0.020, p > 0.05), synonymys (r = 0.225, p > 0.05), meronyms (r = -0.172, p > 0.05), and general nouns (r = 0.007, p > 0.05).
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