Term: folk etymology: a popular but erroneous etymology
Candidate hypernym: record: anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events → 1
Candidate hypernym: reducing agent: a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver → 0
Candidate hypernym: attorney general: the person who holds the position of secretary of the Justice Department → 0
Candidate hypernym: hen: female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus or lobster → 0
Candidate hypernym: tick: a light mattress → 0
Candidate hypernym: waterwheel: a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine → 0
Candidate hypernym: castration anxiety: (psychoanalysis) anxiety resulting from real or imagined threats to your sexual functions; originally applied only to men but can in principle apply to women → 0
Candidate hypernym: rickrack: a narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming → 0
Candidate hypernym: national socialist german workers' party: the political party founded in Germany in 1919 and brought to power by Hitler in 1933 → 0
Candidate hypernym: three-decker: a warship carrying guns on three decks → 0
Candidate hypernym: transducer: an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another → 0