Home › Words › T › taxonymytaxonymytaxonymy · noun — the relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom taxonym + -y.nounThe relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.e.g.“According to the approach to word meaning adopted here, both the core of a category and the relation of taxonymy should in principle be construals, subject to contextual constraints.” — 2004, William Croft, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, →ISBN, page 150:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).