Term: ostracoderm: extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
Candidate hypernym: jawless vertebrate: eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms → 1
Candidate hypernym: bank failure: the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations → 0
Candidate hypernym: redundancy: repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission → 0
Candidate hypernym: canada porcupine: porcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur; often gnaws buildings for salt and grease → 0
Candidate hypernym: mutagen: any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation → 0
Candidate hypernym: abscessed tooth: an abscess of a common kind in the tissue around a tooth → 0
Candidate hypernym: egyptian cotton: fine somewhat brownish long-staple cotton grown in Egypt; believed to be derived from sea island cotton or by hybridization with Peruvian cotton → 0
Candidate hypernym: suricata: meerkats → 0
Candidate hypernym: dyer's weed: eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are (or were) used in dyeing → 0
Candidate hypernym: field: a region in which active military operations are in progress → 0
Candidate hypernym: feature of speech: (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind → 0