Editing Lexical semantics (section)

=== Hyponymy and hypernymy ===
[[Hyponymy and hypernymy]] refer to a relationship between a general term and the more specific terms that fall under the category of the general term.

For example, the colors ''red'', ''green'', ''blue'' and ''yellow'' are hyponyms. They fall under the general term of ''color'', which is the hypernym.
[[File:Colortaxonomy.png|thumb|Taxonomy showing the hypernym "color"]]
{|
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 ''Color (hypernym) → red, green, yellow, blue (hyponyms)''
|}

Hyponyms and hypernyms can be described by using a [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]], as seen in the example.