Term: alkaline earth: any of the bivalent metals of group II of the periodic table (calcium or strontium or barium or magnesium or beryllium)
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: knitting: creating knitted wear → 0
Candidate hypernym: timekeeping: the act or process of determining the time → 0
Candidate hypernym: track: (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data → 0
Candidate hypernym: deposit: money deposited in a bank or some similar institution → 0
Candidate hypernym: closed chain: (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop → 0
Candidate hypernym: south: the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line → 0
Candidate hypernym: black mangrove: a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground → 0
Candidate hypernym: smoke screen: an action intended to conceal or confuse or obscure → 0
Candidate hypernym: brilliantine: a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous → 0
Candidate hypernym: methane: a colorless odorless gas used as a fuel → 0