Hyponym

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

  hyponym \hyponym\ n. (linguistics)
     a word that is more specific (less abstract) than a given
     word; a term designating a class which is a subtype of the
     given word; a subcategory; a subtype. Inverse of hypernym;
     as, "dog" is a hyponym of "mammal", and "mammal" is a hyponym
     of "vertebrate".


  
     Syn: subordinate, subordinate word.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hyponym
       n : a word that is more specific than a given word [syn: {subordinate},
            {subordinate word}]