Term: seventeen-year locust: North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature
Candidate hypernym: cicada: stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone → 1
Candidate hypernym: spinsterhood: the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) → 0
Candidate hypernym: downy yellow violet: violet of eastern North America having softly pubescent leaves and stems and clear yellow flowers with brown-purple veins → 0
Candidate hypernym: gas heat: heating system that burns natural gas → 0
Candidate hypernym: argy-bargy: a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument → 0
Candidate hypernym: secretary of health and human services: the position of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services → 0
Candidate hypernym: naval blockade: the interdiction of a nation's lines of communication at sea by the use of naval power → 0
Candidate hypernym: bombsight: a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs → 0
Candidate hypernym: parlor car: a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: radiation: the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay → 0
Candidate hypernym: british shilling: a former monetary unit in Great Britain → 0