Holonymy

Holonymie (. AltGr ὅλος holos " whole, complete " ) is a term used in linguistics and refers to the word of a " part - of " relationship between words, which the other includes with: If a word A is a Holonym of another word B, the word B denotes a part of what is meant by a.

Example of a Holonymie: the term includes face nose. Thus face is a Holonym of nose.

The inverse of this relation is called meronymy.