Term: birth certificate: a copy of the official document giving details of a person's birth
Candidate hypernym: certificate: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts → 1
Candidate hypernym: pentameter: a verse line having five metrical feet → 0
Candidate hypernym: supervention: a following on in addition → 0
Candidate hypernym: bermuda buttercup: South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: hemiptera: plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas) → 0
Candidate hypernym: jacking off: slang for masturbation → 0
Candidate hypernym: tonnage: a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship → 0
Candidate hypernym: sociobiologist: a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: mountain lily: Japanese lily with golden rays → 0
Candidate hypernym: neophobia: a morbid fear of novelty → 0
Candidate hypernym: occlusion: (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed → 0