Term: banshee: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death
Candidate hypernym: spirit: any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings → 1
Candidate hypernym: pendulum watch: (18th century) a watch with a balance wheel having a fake pendulum attached to it → 0
Candidate hypernym: passage: a section of text; particularly a section of medium length → 0
Candidate hypernym: coffee urn: an urn in which coffee is made and kept hot → 0
Candidate hypernym: black mallee: a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum → 0
Candidate hypernym: caltrop: tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed → 0
Candidate hypernym: harpulla: fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building → 0
Candidate hypernym: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet → 0
Candidate hypernym: picris: genus of weedy Old World yellow-flowered herbs usually containing a bitter-tasting substance: bitterweed → 0
Candidate hypernym: anthropology department: the academic department responsible for teaching and research in anthropology → 0
Candidate hypernym: whitethorn: thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America → 0