Term: exhibition season: the time before the regular games begin when football or baseball teams play practice games
Candidate hypernym: fundamental quantity: one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement → 1
Candidate hypernym: limit: the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity → 0
Candidate hypernym: common ginger: tropical Asian plant widely cultivated for its pungent root; source of gingerroot and powdered ginger → 0
Candidate hypernym: releasing hormone: any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones; each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone → 0
Candidate hypernym: cost-benefit analysis: an analysis of the cost effectiveness of different alternatives in order to see whether the benefits outweigh the costs → 0
Candidate hypernym: russian: the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia → 0
Candidate hypernym: detention basin: a storage site (such as a small reservoir) that delays the flow of water downstream → 0
Candidate hypernym: anomalops: fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico → 0
Candidate hypernym: auditory ossicle: ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear → 0
Candidate hypernym: request: the verbal act of requesting → 0
Candidate hypernym: thinker: someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) → 0