Pronunciation: si-nek'-do-kee
Alternate Spelling: Gk. "to take with something else"
Latin Synonyms: intelleccion, figure of quick conceite
A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus).
The rustler bragged he'd absconded with five hundred head of longhorns. Both "head" and "longhorns" are parts of cattle that represent them as wholes Listen, you've got to come take a look at my new set of wheels. One refers to a vehicle in terms of some of its parts, "wheels" "He shall think differently," the musketeer threatened, "when he feels the point of my steel." A sword, the species, is represented by referring to its genus, "steel"