Term: shad: herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn
Candidate hypernym: clupeid fish: any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas → 1
Candidate hypernym: soothing syrup: medicine in the form of a syrup that has a calming effect → 0
Candidate hypernym: dancing-master: a professional teacher of dancing → 0
Candidate hypernym: carborundum: an abrasive composed of silicon carbide crystals → 0
Candidate hypernym: pleochroism: the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: venality: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward → 0
Candidate hypernym: menage a trois: household for three; an arrangement where a married couple and a lover of one of them live together while sharing sexual relations → 0
Candidate hypernym: venality: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward → 0
Candidate hypernym: cryptobiosis: a state in which an animal's metabolic activities come to a reversible standstill → 0
Candidate hypernym: horse nettle: coarse prickly weed having pale yellow flowers and yellow berrylike fruit; common throughout southern and eastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: lager: a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September → 0