What is Hyponymy and hypernymy?
[[File:Hyponym and hypernym.svg|thumb|300px| An example of the relationship between hyponyms and hypernym]] {{Use British English|date=January 2014}} In [[linguistics]], a '''hyponym''' is a [[word]] that can be changed with a different and less [[wikt:precise|precise]] word without changing the overall meaning of the [[phrase]]. The different word is its '''hyperonym,''' '''hypernym''' or '''superordinate term'''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Brinton |first=Laurel J. |year=2000 <!--NO_PREVIEW: |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cqhef3mfhXQC--> |title=The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction |url=https://archive.org/details/structuremoderne00brin |edition=Illustrated |publisher=[[John Benjamins Publishing Company]] |isbn=978-90-272-2567-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/structuremoderne00brin/page/112 112]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Stede |first=Manfred |title=The hyperonym problem revisited: Conceptual and lexical hierarchies in language generation - W00-1413 |volume=14 |chapter-url=http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W00/W00-1413.pdf |publisher=[[Association for Computational Linguistics]] |access-date=5 January 2014 |pages=93–99 |doi=10.3115/1118253.1118267 |date=June 2000|chapter=The hyperonym problem revisited |isbn=978-9659029600 |s2cid=477974 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Zyz0A6bXWEC&pg=PA135|title=The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction|last=Brinton|first=Laurel J.|date=2000|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=9781556196621|language=en}}</ref> '''Hyponymy''' is a relation to a more generic word.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Zyz0A6bXWEC&pg=PA135|title=The Structure of Modern English: A Linguistic Introduction|last=Brinton|first=Laurel J.|date=2000|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=9781556196621|pages=135|language=en}}</ref> A hyponym can be part of a group of words on a similar level that can all be replaced by the same hypernym. For example, ''pigeon'', ''crow'', ''eagle'' and ''seagull'' are all hyp