Term: secretary of state: the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of State
Candidate hypernym: secretary: a person who is head of an administrative department of government → 1
Candidate hypernym: adhocracy: an organization with little or no structure → 0
Candidate hypernym: run: a row of unravelled stitches → 0
Candidate hypernym: priesthood: the body of ordained religious practitioners → 0
Candidate hypernym: flight: an instance of traveling by air → 0
Candidate hypernym: follies: a revue with elaborate costuming → 0
Candidate hypernym: shirodkar's operation: a surgical procedure in which a suture is used to close the cervix in a pregnant woman; is performed when the cervix has failed to retain previous pregnancies → 0
Candidate hypernym: grape louse: destructive to various grape plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: medial geniculate body: a neural structure that serves as the last of a series of processing centers along the auditory pathway from the cochlea to the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex → 0
Candidate hypernym: truss: (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus streptococcus: a genus of bacteria → 0