Synecdochical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Synecdochical \Syn`ec*doch"ic*al\, a.
     Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of
           speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for


           another.                                 --Drayton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  synecdochical
       adj : using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole
             for the part; or the special for the general or the
             general for the special; or the material for the thing
             made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail'
             for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a
             synecdochic figure of speech" [syn: {synecdochic}]