Term: septicemic plague: an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person
Candidate hypernym: plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal → 1
Candidate hypernym: open-hearth process: a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace → 0
Candidate hypernym: epigraph: a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing → 0
Candidate hypernym: vitis: the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes → 0
Candidate hypernym: explorer: someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) → 0
Candidate hypernym: complex instruction set computing: (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip → 0
Candidate hypernym: perspicuity: clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous → 0
Candidate hypernym: asarabacca: thick creeping evergreen herb of western Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: clupeid fish: any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas → 0
Candidate hypernym: coeducation: education of men and women in the same institutions → 0
Candidate hypernym: loving-kindness: tender kindness motivated by a feeling of affection → 0