Term: environmental protection agency: an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
Candidate hypernym: independent agency: an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments → 1
Candidate hypernym: alcove: a small recess opening off a larger room → 0
Candidate hypernym: specific performance: the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms → 0
Candidate hypernym: immortelle: mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere → 0
Candidate hypernym: weasel: a person who is regarded as treacherous or sneaky → 0
Candidate hypernym: bluehead: small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head → 0
Candidate hypernym: monochromacy: complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness → 0
Candidate hypernym: immediacy: lack of an intervening or mediating agency → 0
Candidate hypernym: aquatic plant: a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth → 0
Candidate hypernym: bryum: type genus of the Bryaceae: mosses distinguished by mostly erect and tufted gametophytes and symmetrical short-necked capsules → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphaeresis: (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' → 0