Term: bittern: relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
Candidate hypernym: heron: grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill → 1
Candidate hypernym: beechnut: small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: early warning system: a network of radar installations designed to detect enemy missiles or aircraft while there is still time to intercept them → 0
Candidate hypernym: excitation: something that agitates and arouses → 0
Candidate hypernym: pseudococcus: type genus of the Pseudococcidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: playsuit: a sports outfit for women or children; usually consists of shorts and a blouse → 0
Candidate hypernym: sign: a gesture that is part of a sign language → 0
Candidate hypernym: scallop: one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) → 0
Candidate hypernym: eigenvalue: (mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant → 0
Candidate hypernym: marline: a small usually tarred line of 2 strands → 0
Candidate hypernym: lexicalized concept: a concept that is expressed by a word (in some particular language) → 0