Term: cochineal insect: Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti; the source of a red dye
Candidate hypernym: scale insect: small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering → 1
Candidate hypernym: mind: attention → 0
Candidate hypernym: threescore: a set with 3 times 20 members → 0
Candidate hypernym: pig iron: crude iron tapped from a blast furnace → 0
Candidate hypernym: ribbing: a framework of ribs → 0
Candidate hypernym: smith: someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) → 0
Candidate hypernym: vacuum: the absence of matter → 0
Candidate hypernym: papilla: a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell → 0
Candidate hypernym: pole position: the most favorable position at the start of a race → 0
Candidate hypernym: draba: any of numerous low-growing cushion-forming plants of the genus Draba having rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of small flowers with scapose or leafy stems; fruit is a dehiscent oblong or linear silique → 0
Candidate hypernym: lame duck: an elected official still in office but not slated to continue → 0