Term: chloramphenicol: an oral antibiotic (trade name Chloromycetin) used to treat serious infections (especially typhoid fever)
Candidate hypernym: antibiotic: a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections → 1
Candidate hypernym: candid camera: a miniature camera with a fast lens → 0
Candidate hypernym: line of life: a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live → 0
Candidate hypernym: black-eyed pea: eaten fresh as shell beans or dried → 0
Candidate hypernym: avocado: tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: copperware: utensils made with copper → 0
Candidate hypernym: stayman: apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley → 0
Candidate hypernym: wool oil: any oil used to oil wool before spinning → 0
Candidate hypernym: bayes' postulate: (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) → 0
Candidate hypernym: stage: a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination → 0
Candidate hypernym: jatropha: a mainly tropical genus of American plant belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae → 0