WordNet: synecdochic, synecdochical
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"
- similar to figurative, nonliteral
synecdochic
- (englanti) synecdoche (derivationally related)
- (suomi) synekdokeettinen (synonyymi)
synecdochical
- (englanti) synecdoche (derivationally related)
- (suomi) synekdokeettinen (synonyymi)