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Which of these refers to the part of a whole type of association that exists between the meanings of the words?

  1. Lexicon

  2. Holonymy

  3. Hyponym

  4. Meronym

  5. Etymology
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Explanation

Meronymy is a semantic relation used in linguistics. A meronym denotes a constituent part of, or a member of something. A meronym means part of a whole. A word denoting a subset of what another word denotes is a hyponym.

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