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synecdochical

DEFINITIONS OF: synecdochical

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adj 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

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synecdochic
figurative, nonliteral
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
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