Term: purple loosestrife: marsh herb with a long spike of purple flowers; originally of Europe but now rampant in eastern United States
Candidate hypernym: loosestrife: any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum → 1
Candidate hypernym: catamaran: a sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck → 0
Candidate hypernym: plunk: (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly → 0
Candidate hypernym: bole: a soft oily clay used as a pigment (especially a reddish brown pigment) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bop: an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940) → 0
Candidate hypernym: groomsman: a male attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding → 0
Candidate hypernym: adjective: the word class that qualifies nouns → 0
Candidate hypernym: general anesthesia: a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation) → 0
Candidate hypernym: matakam: a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad → 0
Candidate hypernym: badger: sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: sphaeriales: large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders → 0