autoholonym

English

Examples
arm (“whole limb”) or arm (“shoulder to elbow”) door (“doorframe plus swinging part”) or door (“swinging part alone”)

Etymology

From auto- +‎ holonym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ holo- +‎ -nym.

Noun

autoholonym (plural autoholonyms)

1. A word that is a holonym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader subsense that denotes a whole comprising the part (portion) that the stricter main sense denotes.

   Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term

   Coordinate term: automeronym

Related terms

• autoholonymy, automeronymy
• comeronym (sharing a holonym)

See also

• strictly speaking
• stricto sensu