Term: descent: the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: powwow: a council of or with Native Americans → 0
Candidate hypernym: north by east: the compass point that is one point east (clockwise) of due north → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyrethrum: used in former classifications for plants later placed in genus Chrysanthemum and now often included in genus Tanacetum → 0
Candidate hypernym: tenant: a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) → 0
Candidate hypernym: autolysis: lysis of plant or animal tissue by an internal process → 0
Candidate hypernym: star grass: any plant of the genus Hypoxis having long grasslike leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers: Africa; Australia; southern Asia; North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: ferryman: a man who operates a ferry → 0
Candidate hypernym: neohygrophorus angelesianus: a fungus with a small brown convex cap with a depressed disc; waxy wine-colored gills and a brown stalk; fruits in or near melting snow banks in the western mountains of North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: isometry: equality of elevation above sea level → 0
Candidate hypernym: bimetallism: a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by stated amounts of two metals (usually gold and silver) with values set at a predetermined ratio → 0