Term: earplug: a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise
Candidate hypernym: plug: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly → 1
Candidate hypernym: rag paper: paper made partly or wholly from rags → 0
Candidate hypernym: lumpenproletariat: (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement → 0
Candidate hypernym: giant sunflower: very tall American perennial of central and the eastern United States to Canada having edible tuberous roots → 0
Candidate hypernym: atelectasis: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth → 0
Candidate hypernym: bus lane: a traffic lane intended for buses only → 0
Candidate hypernym: lymantriidae: tussock moths → 0
Candidate hypernym: time scale: an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration → 0
Candidate hypernym: detection: a police investigation to determine the perpetrator → 0
Candidate hypernym: altaic: a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: hemisphere: half of the terrestrial globe → 0