Term: non sequitur: a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it
Candidate hypernym: reply: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange → 1
Candidate hypernym: thumbscrew: instrument of torture that crushes the thumb → 0
Candidate hypernym: tomatillo: small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk → 0
Candidate hypernym: leer: a suggestive or sneering look or grin → 0
Candidate hypernym: cilium: a hairlike projection from the surface of a cell; provides locomotion in free-swimming unicellular organisms → 0
Candidate hypernym: polysemy: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings → 0
Candidate hypernym: natrix: water snakes; a cosmopolitan genus → 0
Candidate hypernym: inflectional morphology: the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words → 0
Candidate hypernym: femoral vein: a vein that accompanies the femoral artery in the same sheath; a continuation of the popliteal vein; becomes the external iliac vein → 0
Candidate hypernym: rider: a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel) → 0
Candidate hypernym: phagocytosis: process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection → 0