Term: blues: a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
Candidate hypernym: black music: music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses → 1
Candidate hypernym: deceleration: a decrease in rate of change → 0
Candidate hypernym: carnelian: a translucent red or orange variety of chalcedony → 0
Candidate hypernym: freezing mixture: a mixture of substances (usually salt and ice) to obtain a temperature below the freezing point of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: approbation: official approval → 0
Candidate hypernym: color sergeant: a sergeant in a color guard who carries one of the colors → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypochondria: chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments → 0
Candidate hypernym: syncope: (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in `fo'c'sle' for `forecastle') → 0
Candidate hypernym: scardinius: rudds → 0
Candidate hypernym: domestic llama: used in the Andes as a beast of burden and source of wool; considered a domesticated variety of the guanaco → 0
Candidate hypernym: whale louse: amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans → 0