Definition of "meronym" []

• A term that denotes a part of the whole that is denoted by another term. (noun)

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• "Automatic Thesaurus Generation  Hearst (1992) presents an algorithm that can automatically generate a thesaurus or dictionary:  Learning hyponym, meronym relations and more."
• "Badulescu, and Moldovan (2003) present an algorithm for learning meronym from a corpus."