Term: charon: (Greek mythology) the ferryman who brought the souls of the dead across the river Styx or the river Acheron to Hades
Candidate hypernym: living thing: a living (or once living) entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: adulthood: the state (and responsibilities) of a person who has attained maturity → 0
Candidate hypernym: hog: a person regarded as greedy and pig-like → 0
Candidate hypernym: chiasmus: inversion in the second of two parallel phrases → 0
Candidate hypernym: subornation: perjured testimony that someone was persuaded to give → 0
Candidate hypernym: lamellar mixture: a mixture in which substances occur in distinct layers → 0
Candidate hypernym: foreign intelligence surveillance court: a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies → 0
Candidate hypernym: truss: (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: spermatic cord: a structure resembling a cord that suspends the testis within the scrotum and contains the vas deferens and other vessels and nerves → 0
Candidate hypernym: japanese oyster: a large oyster native to Japan and introduced along the Pacific coast of the United States; a candidate for introduction in Chesapeake Bay → 0
Candidate hypernym: sinker: a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) → 0