Term: prescriptive linguistics: an account of how a language should be used instead of how it is actually used; a prescription for the `correct' phonology and morphology and syntax and semantics
Candidate hypernym: knowledge domain: the content of a particular field of knowledge → 1
Candidate hypernym: cabbage bark: tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic → 0
Candidate hypernym: fart: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus → 0
Candidate hypernym: standard deviation: the square root of the variance → 0
Candidate hypernym: lappet: medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars → 0
Candidate hypernym: pathology: any deviation from a healthy or normal condition → 0
Candidate hypernym: cider vinegar: vinegar made from cider → 0
Candidate hypernym: genotype: the particular alleles at specified loci present in an organism → 0
Candidate hypernym: hardbake: a British sweet made with molasses and butter and almonds → 0
Candidate hypernym: drift ice: masses of ice floating in the open sea → 0
Candidate hypernym: quadric: a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree → 0