Consider a noun such as 'pear', and consider the form of the pear. Now, consider an abstract of totum pro parte, where 'pear' now also signifies 'wide part of, bump'. Imagine a language where a lot of things are understood both as referring to the thing as such as well as distinctive properties of the thing, even when these distinctive properties are on other things.
Thus, "the pear of the face" could be the cheek, whereas the "tree of the man" is his tallness.
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