hyponymn.
/ˈhʌɪpəʊnɪm/ 1. Taxonomy. A name made invalid by the lack of adequate contemporary description of the taxon it was intended to designate.
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hyponym1904
1904 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31 258 A specific or subspecific name is a hyponym when it has not been connected with a description identifiable by diagnostic characters or by reference to a type specimen, figure or locality.
1904 Science 25 Mar. 509/2 Some are hyponyms, never having been associated with a recognizable binomial species.
1946 D. B. Swingle Textbk. Syst. Bot. (ed. 3) ix. 225 A name not so described or identified is a hyponym and nonvalid for the group for which it was intended.
1946 D. B. Swingle Textbk. Syst. Bot. (ed. 3) ix. 226 Homonyms and hyponyms result in the formation of synonyms, for these names must be replaced by usable terms, leaving them as synonyms.
2. Linguistics. One of two or more words related by hyponymy.
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hyponym1963
1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics iv. 69 I say that scarlet is a hyponym of, or is included in, red.
1965 Language 41 509 Hyponyms are placed under the head word.
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