Term: preliminary: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows
Candidate hypernym: origin: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events → 1
Candidate hypernym: indexation: a system of economic regulation: wages and interest are tied to the cost-of-living index in order to reduce the effects of inflation → 0
Candidate hypernym: petunia: any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: towhee: any of numerous long-tailed American finches → 0
Candidate hypernym: chechen: a northern Caucasian language spoken by the Chechen → 0
Candidate hypernym: chlorophyta: large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: garden lettuce: annual or perennial garden plant having succulent leaves used in salads; widely grown → 0
Candidate hypernym: warrant officer: holds rank by virtue of a warrant → 0
Candidate hypernym: brand: a recognizable kind → 0
Candidate hypernym: idea: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about → 0
Candidate hypernym: parainfluenza virus: a virus that causes upper respiratory infection (including the common cold and bronchiolitis); most often in children → 0