Hypernymy is the semantic relation in which one word is the hypernym of another.
From the en.wikipedia.org
For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A hypernym is superordinate to a hyponym, and a hyponym is subordinate to a hypernym.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Both nouns and verbs are organized into hierarchies, defined by hypernym or IS A relationships.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I am not sure what the correct terminology in English is, i.e. what is the hypernym of banknote and treasury note.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Umbrella term is also called a hypernym.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They train a classifier to select those pairs of words that have a high probability of being hypernym pairs given the constructions which link the terms in the corpus.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
A word that is more generic than a given word
In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym (sometimes spelled hyperonym outside of the natural language processing community). In simpler terms, a hyponym shares a type-of relationship with its hypernym. ...
A word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term
(hypernymic) Of or pertaining to hypernyms
(Hypernyms) For noun definitions, the hypernym is the head noun of the first noun phrase in the definition, unless the head is "empty" (currently kind, sort, type, species, suborder, one) and is followed by the word of, in which case we take the hypernym as the head of the NP following of. ...
More general or broad keywords, such as car, truck, or automobile, which will widen the results of a search.
Word with a broad meaning which more specific words fall under: a superordinate (Ibid)
A word whose meaning denotes a superordinate or superclass. Animal is a hypernym of dog. Opposite of hyponym. See also superclass and term-equivalence dictionary.
A word that generalizes another word, e.g. tool is a hypernym of hammer.