Term: hominy: hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
Candidate hypernym: corn: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food → 1
Candidate hypernym: business: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it → 0
Candidate hypernym: epitaph: an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there → 0
Candidate hypernym: obiter dictum: an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding → 0
Candidate hypernym: melioration: the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning → 0
Candidate hypernym: cystitis: inflammation of the urinary bladder and ureters → 0
Candidate hypernym: interception: the act of intercepting; preventing something from proceeding or arriving → 0
Candidate hypernym: bioluminescence: luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) → 0
Candidate hypernym: ratbite fever: either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions → 0
Candidate hypernym: staphylea: a genus of small trees or shrubs of the family Staphylaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: verpa conica: a morel with a fertile portion that has a relatively smooth surface; the stalk is fragile → 0