Term: ardea: type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons
Candidate hypernym: genus: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species → 1
Candidate hypernym: shock therapy: treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions → 0
Candidate hypernym: all saints' day: a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835 → 0
Candidate hypernym: main street: any small town (or the people who inhabit it); generally used to represent parochialism and materialism (after a novel by Sinclair Lewis) → 0
Candidate hypernym: yam: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food → 0
Candidate hypernym: fundamental quantity: one of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement → 0
Candidate hypernym: ghost: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person → 0
Candidate hypernym: algeripithecus minutus: tiny (150 to 300 grams) extinct primate of 46 to 50 million years ago; fossils found in Algeria; considered by some authorities the leading candidate for the first anthropoid → 0
Candidate hypernym: tread: the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire → 0
Candidate hypernym: starship: a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction) → 0
Candidate hypernym: judeo-spanish: the Spanish dialect spoken by Sephardic Jews but written in the Hebrew script → 0