synecdochical Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite 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
    synecdochic.
    • to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech

WordNet

Syn`ec*doch"ic*al adjective
Definitions
  1. Expressed by synecdoche; implying a synecdoche.
    Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another. Drayton.

Webster 1913