synecdochic

Adjective
  1. 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 (synset 301423361)
    "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 - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
    same as: synecdochical

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