Term: piccolo: a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
Candidate hypernym: artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole → 1
Candidate hypernym: microdot: photograph reduced to the size of a dot (usually for purposes of security) → 0
Candidate hypernym: spinning jenny: an early spinning machine with multiple spindles → 0
Candidate hypernym: bachelor of divinity: a bachelor's degree in religion → 0
Candidate hypernym: amalgam: an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams → 0
Candidate hypernym: startle reflex: a normal reflex of young infants; a sudden loud noise causes the child to stretch out the arms and flex the legs → 0
Candidate hypernym: pied-billed grebe: American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill → 0
Candidate hypernym: threat: a warning that something unpleasant is imminent → 0
Candidate hypernym: meperidine: a synthetic narcotic drug (trade name Demerol) used to treat pain → 0
Candidate hypernym: devourer: someone who eats greedily or voraciously → 0
Candidate hypernym: precedent: an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time → 0