Term: pipe major: the chief piper in a band of bagpipes
Candidate hypernym: person: a human being → 1
Candidate hypernym: diffuse nebula: a cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust → 0
Candidate hypernym: martial law: the body of law imposed by the military over civilian affairs (usually in time of war or civil crisis); overrides civil law → 0
Candidate hypernym: root hair: thin hairlike outgrowth of an epidermal cell just behind the tip; absorbs nutrients from the soil → 0
Candidate hypernym: twig blight: a disease of the ends of twigs of woody plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: desensitization technique: a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished → 0
Candidate hypernym: credit bureau: a private firm that maintains consumer credit data files and provides credit information to authorized users for a fee → 0
Candidate hypernym: instrumentality: a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow avens: hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: brutalization: an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities → 0
Candidate hypernym: fir cone: the seed-producing cone of a fir tree → 0