Term: trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Candidate hypernym: rhetorical device: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) → 1
Candidate hypernym: quantum chromodynamics: a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together → 0
Candidate hypernym: woad: a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: backbench: any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons → 0
Candidate hypernym: ledger board: top rail of a fence or balustrade → 0
Candidate hypernym: memory chip: a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory → 0
Candidate hypernym: marmota: marmots → 0
Candidate hypernym: tree mallow: arborescent perennial shrub having palmately lobed furry leaves and showy red-purple flowers; southwestern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: symbol: an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance → 0
Candidate hypernym: doubt: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus sassafras: a genus of sassafras → 0