Term: pneumonic plague: a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
Candidate hypernym: plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal → 1
Candidate hypernym: contradiction: (logic) a statement that is necessarily false → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpha: the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet → 0
Candidate hypernym: oca: South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers → 0
Candidate hypernym: soiree: a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house) → 0
Candidate hypernym: second period: the second division into which the play of a game is divided → 0
Candidate hypernym: wiener roast: a cookout where roasted frankfurters are the main course → 0
Candidate hypernym: american star grass: perennial star grass of North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: americium: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms → 0
Candidate hypernym: triple-spacing: typing that leaves two lines blank between lines of typing → 0
Candidate hypernym: radio link: a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network → 0