Term: affricate: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: banishment: the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wankel engine: a rotary engine that is a four-stroke internal-combustion engine without reciprocating parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: forest tent caterpillar: larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: calypso: (Greek mythology) the sea nymph who detained Odysseus for seven years → 0
Candidate hypernym: conductive hearing loss: hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear → 0
Candidate hypernym: liberty ship: a slow cargo ship built during World War II → 0
Candidate hypernym: news: information reported in a newspaper or news magazine → 0
Candidate hypernym: moderate breeze: wind moving 13-18 knots; 4 on the Beaufort scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: thunbergia: a genus of herbs or vines of the family Acanthaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: rod: any rod-shaped bacterium → 0