Question

What is Hypernym relation?

(a) A is part of B

(b) B has A as a part of itself

(c) A is a kind of B

(d) A is superordinate of B

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Answer 1

The correct choice is (d) A is superordinate of B

Explanation: In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym (sometimes spelled hypernym outside of the natural language processing community). In simpler terms, a hyponym shares a type-of relationship with its hypernym.