Term: black rat snake: large harmless shiny black North American snake
Candidate hypernym: rat snake: any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia → 1
Candidate hypernym: elul: the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September) → 0
Candidate hypernym: diversion: a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) → 0
Candidate hypernym: apocope: abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: misocainea: hatred of new ideas → 0
Candidate hypernym: broadcasting: taking part in a radio or tv program → 0
Candidate hypernym: levee: a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court) → 0
Candidate hypernym: lateral thinking: a heuristic for solving problems; you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on → 0
Candidate hypernym: cobol: common business-oriented language → 0
Candidate hypernym: koan: a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning → 0
Candidate hypernym: potato fungus: fungus causing a disease in potatoes characterized by black scurfy spots on the tubers → 0