Term: american: a native or inhabitant of the United States
Candidate hypernym: inhabitant: a person who inhabits a particular place → 1
Candidate hypernym: lime: any of various related trees bearing limes → 0
Candidate hypernym: hospice: a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill → 0
Candidate hypernym: showboat: a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the Mississippi River) → 0
Candidate hypernym: oratory: addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) → 0
Candidate hypernym: shirting: any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts → 0
Candidate hypernym: denial: the act of asserting that something alleged is not true → 0
Candidate hypernym: wally: a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid → 0
Candidate hypernym: psephology: the branch of sociology that studies election trends (as by opinion polls) → 0
Candidate hypernym: rose chestnut: handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties → 0
Candidate hypernym: rerebrace: cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm → 0