Hyponymy

Hyponymy
【正确答案】：Hyponymy is a relationship between two words, in which the meaning of one of the words includes the meaning of the other word. For example, in English the words “animal” and “dog” are related in such a way that “dog” refers to a kind of animal, and “animal” is a general term. That is to say, if any object is a dog, then it is necessarily an animal, so the meaning of “animal” is included in the meaning of “dog”. The specific term, “dog”, is called a hyponym, and the general term, “animal”, is called a superordinate.