Term: nit: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
Candidate hypernym: egg: animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds → 1
Candidate hypernym: freshwater bass: any of various North American freshwater fish with lean flesh (especially of the genus Micropterus) → 0
Candidate hypernym: eastern fence lizard: small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia → 0
Candidate hypernym: common wallaby: a small wallaby having a height of 30 inches → 0
Candidate hypernym: lissomeness: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple → 0
Candidate hypernym: mezereum: the dried bark of the shrub mezereon → 0
Candidate hypernym: closed shop: a company that hires only union members → 0
Candidate hypernym: footstep: the act of taking a step in walking → 0
Candidate hypernym: epicardium: the innermost of the two layers of the pericardium → 0
Candidate hypernym: diverticulum: a herniation through the muscular wall of a tubular organ (especially the colon) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bilocular capsule: a capsule divided into two cells or compartments → 0