Term: american maidenhair fern: hardy palmately branched North American fern with divergent recurved branches borne on lustrous dark reddish stipes
Candidate hypernym: maidenhair: any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds → 1
Candidate hypernym: fly: an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth → 0
Candidate hypernym: left-handedness: the status of being born of a morganatic marriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: stitch: a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing → 0
Candidate hypernym: iodine-131: heavy radioactive isotope of iodine with a half-life of 8 days; used in a sodium salt to diagnose thyroid disease and to treat goiter → 0
Candidate hypernym: why: the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase `the whys and wherefores' → 0
Candidate hypernym: sprites: atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) → 0
Candidate hypernym: merit system: the system of employing and promoting civil servants on the basis of ability → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydrophyllaceae: perennial woodland herbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: variation: (astronomy) any perturbation of the mean motion or orbit of a planet or satellite (especially a perturbation of the earth's moon) → 0
Candidate hypernym: betrayal: the quality of aiding an enemy → 0