Noun

1. A system of meronyms, a name of a constituent part of, the substance of, or a member of something.

   "Blue" is a meronym of "color."

   "Doctor" is a meronym of "professional."

   "St Paul's Cathedral" is a meronym of "Church of England."

See also

• semantics
• synonymy
• antonymy
• homonymy
• polysemy
• paronyms
• hypernymy
• hyponymy
• metonymy
• holonymy
• exocentric
• endocentric