Term: yellow-fever mosquito: mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
Candidate hypernym: mosquito: two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals → 1
Candidate hypernym: slouch: an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions → 0
Candidate hypernym: pityrogramma: terrestrial tropical ferns having fronds with powdery yellowish or white undersides; sometimes placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: uranium 238: the commonest isotope of uranium; it is not fissionable but when irradiated with neutrons it produces fissionable plutonium 239 → 0
Candidate hypernym: distributor point: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs → 0
Candidate hypernym: rerebrace: cannon that provides plate armor for the upper arm → 0
Candidate hypernym: indulgence: an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires → 0
Candidate hypernym: teton: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains → 0
Candidate hypernym: dicynodontia: a division of Therapsida → 0
Candidate hypernym: cultivation: (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops (especially on a large scale) → 0
Candidate hypernym: floor: the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business → 0