Metonymy is the evocation of the whole by a connection. It consists in using for the name of a thing or a relationship an attribute, a suggested sense, or something closely related, such as effect for cause the imputed relationship being that of contiguity’ Wilden, Anthony (1987): The Rules Are No Game: The Strategy of Communication. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul

A word used in a transferred sense, e.g. "the bottle" for "drink".

a word that is used metonymically; a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing

also spelled "metaeonym"] A later (superfluous) name introduced based on the type of an extant basionym. Genus rank or higher: A name based on a type belonging to the same group as the type of an earlier name.

a figure of speech involving using one signified to stand for another signified which is directly related to it or closely associated with it in some way, notably the substitution of effect for cause