Term: desert: arid land with little or no vegetation
Candidate hypernym: biome: a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate → 1
Candidate hypernym: inadvisability: the quality of being ill-advised → 0
Candidate hypernym: sauce: flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food → 0
Candidate hypernym: grey matter: greyish nervous tissue containing cell bodies as well as fibers; forms the cerebral cortex consisting of unmyelinated neurons → 0
Candidate hypernym: pterygium: either of two thickened triangular layers of conjunctiva extending from the nasal edge of the eye to the cornea; it arises from irritation of the pinguecula → 0
Candidate hypernym: liking: a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment → 0
Candidate hypernym: spaghetti squash: medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti → 0
Candidate hypernym: whaler: a ship engaged in whale fishing → 0
Candidate hypernym: detonation: the act of detonating an explosive → 0
Candidate hypernym: canuck: informal term for Canadians in general and French Canadians in particular → 0
Candidate hypernym: ion exchange: a process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble (usually resinous) solid; widely used in industrial processing → 0