Term: deathwatch beetle: bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
Candidate hypernym: beetle: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings → 1
Candidate hypernym: octal digit: a digit from 0 to 7 in octal notation → 0
Candidate hypernym: ocean: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume → 0
Candidate hypernym: piranha: small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: tobacco mildew: fungus causing a downy mildew on growing tobacco → 0
Candidate hypernym: tankage: the charge for storing something in tanks → 0
Candidate hypernym: radioactive iodine excretion test: radioactive iodine test that measures the amount of radioactive iodine excreted in the urine → 0
Candidate hypernym: phenylpropanolamine: an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections → 0
Candidate hypernym: anguillidae: eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn → 0
Candidate hypernym: reckoning: a bill for an amount due → 0
Candidate hypernym: cheyenne: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne → 0