Term: society of jesus: a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: cornish heath: bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere → 0
Candidate hypernym: margarine: a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter → 0
Candidate hypernym: plasmid: a small cellular inclusion consisting of a ring of DNA that is not in a chromosome but is capable of autonomous replication → 0
Candidate hypernym: time constant: the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms → 0
Candidate hypernym: mylodon: large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: pylon: a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race → 0
Candidate hypernym: costume: unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place → 0
Candidate hypernym: fulmination: thunderous verbal attack → 0
Candidate hypernym: wave: something that rises rapidly → 0
Candidate hypernym: flat bench: a bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises → 0