reference book | sense examples, Usage and Definition from wordnet dictionary online

Noun reference book has 1 sense

reference book, reference, reference work, book of facts - a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic"
--₁ is a kind of book
--₁ has particulars:

cookbook, cookery book; instruction book; source book; wordbook; handbook, enchiridion, vade mecum; directory; annual, yearbook; atlas, book of maps, map collection; encyclopedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, cyclopaedia