Term: pontus: (Greek mythology) ancient personification of the sea; father of Nereus
Candidate hypernym: greek deity: a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks → 1
Candidate hypernym: vanda: any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes → 0
Candidate hypernym: cinnamon bear: reddish-brown color phase of the American black bear → 0
Candidate hypernym: electron: an elementary particle with negative charge → 0
Candidate hypernym: line: persuasive but insincere talk that is usually intended to deceive or impress → 0
Candidate hypernym: naval attache: a military attache who is a commissioned or warrant officer in a navy → 0
Candidate hypernym: meningism: symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges → 0
Candidate hypernym: fire-eater: a performer who pretends to swallow fire → 0
Candidate hypernym: papyrus: tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times → 0
Candidate hypernym: big brother: an authoritarian leader and invader of privacy → 0
Candidate hypernym: ratite: flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds → 0