Term: potlatch: a ceremonial feast held by some Indians of the northwestern coast of North America (as in celebrating a marriage or a new accession) in which the host gives gifts to tribesmen and others to display his superior wealth (sometimes, formerly, to his own impoverishment)
Candidate hypernym: ceremony: a formal event performed on a special occasion → 1
Candidate hypernym: halogeton: a coarse annual herb introduced into North America from Siberia; dangerous to sheep and cattle on western rangelands because of its high oxalate content → 0
Candidate hypernym: liturgy: a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship → 0
Candidate hypernym: call: a demand for a show of hands in a card game → 0
Candidate hypernym: rainbow smelt: important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska → 0
Candidate hypernym: conversion disorder: a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause) → 0
Candidate hypernym: catechumen: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist → 0
Candidate hypernym: slaver: a person engaged in slave trade → 0
Candidate hypernym: testator: a person who makes a will → 0
Candidate hypernym: orycteropodidae: aardvarks → 0
Candidate hypernym: redstart: European songbird with a reddish breast and tail; related to Old World robins → 0