Term: backwater: a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam
Candidate hypernym: body of water: the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) → 1
Candidate hypernym: astrodome: a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations → 0
Candidate hypernym: pine spittlebug: North American insect that attacks pines → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphyllophorales: includes chiefly saprophytic fungi typically with shelflike bodies; sometimes placed in class Hymenomycetes or included in Agaricales → 0
Candidate hypernym: raphidiidae: a family of arthropods of the suborder Megaloptera, including snakeflies → 0
Candidate hypernym: upstart: an arrogant or presumptuous person → 0
Candidate hypernym: rosewood: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork → 0
Candidate hypernym: calibration: the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument → 0
Candidate hypernym: department of commerce: the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 → 0
Candidate hypernym: selenium cell: a photoelectric cell that uses a strip of selenium → 0
Candidate hypernym: primary amenorrhea: delay of menarche beyond age 18 → 0