Term: adoptive parent: a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
Candidate hypernym: parent: a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian → 1
Candidate hypernym: baton: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority → 0
Candidate hypernym: padrone: an employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. → 0
Candidate hypernym: type metal: an alloy of tin and lead and antimony used to make printing type → 0
Candidate hypernym: dwarf sperm whale: very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific → 0
Candidate hypernym: box pleat: a flat double pleat made by folding under the fabric on either side of it → 0
Candidate hypernym: hedge fund: a flexible investment company for a small number of large investors (usually the minimum investment is $1 million); can use high-risk techniques (not allowed for mutual funds) such as short-selling and heavy leveraging → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus nemophila: genus of ornamental chiefly California herbs: baby blue-eyes → 0
Candidate hypernym: shortcut: a route shorter than the usual one → 0
Candidate hypernym: incandescence: the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised → 0
Candidate hypernym: death house: the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution → 0