Iconophor

DEFINITION

An iconophor is an image whose first distinctive feature consists of the letter which begins the name of its referent. "Iconophoric" is the adjectival form. A meta-iconophor is an image whose first distinctive feature consists of the letter which begins the name of a referent that is connoted, not denoted by the image.(pr. i:-KAH-nə-FOR, i:-KAH-nə-FOR-ək, MEH-tə i:-KAH-nə-FOR)