Term: welwitschia: curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
Candidate hypernym: gymnosperm: plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary → 1
Candidate hypernym: mitral stenosis: obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) → 0
Candidate hypernym: reflex arc: the neural path of a reflex → 0
Candidate hypernym: bridge: the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose → 0
Candidate hypernym: primate: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet → 0
Candidate hypernym: defalcation: the sum of money that is misappropriated → 0
Candidate hypernym: drive: (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium → 0
Candidate hypernym: torch singer: a singer (usually a woman) who specializes in singing torch songs → 0
Candidate hypernym: callithricidae: marmosets → 0
Candidate hypernym: argon: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: basic assumption: an assumption that is basic to an argument → 0