different between metonymy vs hyponymy

English

From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (met?numí?, “change of name”), from ???? (metá, “other”) + ????? (ónoma, “name”).

metonymy (countable and uncountable, plural metonymies)

(rhetoric) The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
Coordinate term: metaphor
Hypernyms: trope, figure of speech
Hyponyms: synecdoche, synecdochy
(countable) A metonym.

From hypo- +? -nymy or hyponym +? -y

hyponymy (countable and uncountable, plural hyponymies)

(semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
Antonyms: hypernymy, hyperonymy

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