Term: alewife: shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
Candidate hypernym: clupeid fish: any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas → 1
Candidate hypernym: kitty: informal terms referring to a domestic cat → 0
Candidate hypernym: heuristic: a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem → 0
Candidate hypernym: sipuncula: peanut worms → 0
Candidate hypernym: seek: the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk → 0
Candidate hypernym: gang: an organized group of workmen → 0
Candidate hypernym: bouncing putty: a soft elastic silicone polymer that increases in elasticity with the application of force; used in the center of golf balls and as shock-absorbent padding → 0
Candidate hypernym: tureen: large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews → 0
Candidate hypernym: bullion: a mass of precious metal → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpha particle: a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom; emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes → 0
Candidate hypernym: silversmith: someone who makes or repairs articles of silver → 0