Term: dry rot: a fungus causing dry rot
Candidate hypernym: fungus: an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia → 1
Candidate hypernym: dialogue: the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction → 0
Candidate hypernym: feel: an intuitive awareness;  or → 0
Candidate hypernym: drepanididae: Hawaiian honeycreepers → 0
Candidate hypernym: business: an immediate objective → 0
Candidate hypernym: ember: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering → 0
Candidate hypernym: young's modulus: a coefficient of elasticity applicable to the stretching of a wire → 0
Candidate hypernym: illiterate: a person unable to read → 0
Candidate hypernym: walnut: hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling → 0
Candidate hypernym: hyracotherium: extinct horse genus; formerly called eohippus → 0
Candidate hypernym: brooklime: plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers → 0