Source : WordNet®

synecdochic
     adj : 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; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail'
           for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a
           synecdochic figure of speech" [syn: {synecdochical}]