Term: metaphysics: the philosophical study of being and knowing
Candidate hypernym: philosophy: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics → 1
Candidate hypernym: meat: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food → 0
Candidate hypernym: nazarene: an early name for any Christian → 0
Candidate hypernym: plumb bob: the metal bob of a plumb line → 0
Candidate hypernym: lymantriid: dull-colored moth whose larvae have tufts of hair on the body and feed on the leaves of many deciduous trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: white fungus: a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins) → 0
Candidate hypernym: fungal infection: an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus → 0
Candidate hypernym: scouring rush: evergreen erect horsetail with rough-edged stems; formerly used for scouring utensils → 0
Candidate hypernym: lorica: a hard protective sheath (as secreted by certain protoctists, for example) → 0
Candidate hypernym: society: the fashionable elite → 0
Candidate hypernym: pothook: an S-shaped hook to suspend a pot over a fire → 0