coordinate term
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coordinate term (plural coordinate terms)
- (semantics) A term (word or noun phrase) that shares a hypernym (or hypernymic noun phrase) with another: that is, one that names another type (kind) within the same class.
- Synonyms: cohyponym, co-hyponym
- Hypernyms: term; word
- Coordinate terms: synonym; antonym; comeronym; hypernym, hyperonym; hyponym; near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym; instance, example; metonym, synechdoche; antiphrasis
- The words oak, maple, spruce, and linden are coordinate terms beneath the hypernym of tree.
- The terms HDA, LAMP, MDA, NASBA, RPA, SDA, and TMA are coordinate terms beneath the hypernymic term isothermal nucleic acid amplification test.