Term: parasite: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
Candidate hypernym: organism: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently → 1
Candidate hypernym: gonorhynchidae: coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus → 0
Candidate hypernym: nephelinite: an igneous rock consisting of nepheline and pyroxene → 0
Candidate hypernym: restaurant chain: a chain of restaurants → 0
Candidate hypernym: bed: the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: tabes: wasting of the body during a chronic disease → 0
Candidate hypernym: fury: a feeling of intense anger → 0
Candidate hypernym: red cross: an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime → 0
Candidate hypernym: disaster: an act that has disastrous consequences → 0
Candidate hypernym: quickset: cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines → 0
Candidate hypernym: electrochemistry: branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical action of electricity and the production of electricity by chemical reactions → 0