Term: formic acid: a colorless pungent fuming vesicatory liquid acid HCOOH found naturally in ants and many plants or made catalytically from carbon monoxide and steam; used in finishing textiles and paper and in the manufacture of insecticides and fumigants
Candidate hypernym: acid: any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt → 1
Candidate hypernym: scincidae: skinks → 0
Candidate hypernym: body: the external structure of a vehicle → 0
Candidate hypernym: prairie rocket: any of several North American plants of the genus Erysimum having large yellow flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: hardware error: error resulting from a malfunction of some physical component of the computer → 0
Candidate hypernym: sycamore: thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore → 0
Candidate hypernym: eternity: time without end → 0
Candidate hypernym: hubble's law: (astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from the observer → 0
Candidate hypernym: mocha: a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia → 0
Candidate hypernym: bastard wing: tuft of small stiff feathers on the first digit of a bird's wing → 0
Candidate hypernym: legal code: a code of laws adopted by a state or nation → 0