Term: genus asparagus: large genus of Old World perennial herbs with erect or spreading or climbing stems and small scalelike leaves and inconspicuous flowers; sometimes placed in family Asparagaceae
Candidate hypernym: genus: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species → 1
Candidate hypernym: amphineura: a class of Gastropoda → 0
Candidate hypernym: threshold function: a function that takes the value 1 if a specified function of the arguments exceeds a given threshold and 0 otherwise → 0
Candidate hypernym: passive air defense: air defense by the use of deception or dispersion or protective construction → 0
Candidate hypernym: poverty line: a level of personal income defining the state of poverty → 0
Candidate hypernym: biochemist: someone with special training in biochemistry → 0
Candidate hypernym: double bind: (psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful → 0
Candidate hypernym: new world least weasel: of Canada and northeastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: elephant seal: either of two large northern Atlantic earless seals having snouts like trunks → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow jack: fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: bahrainian monetary unit: monetary unit in Bahrain → 0