Term: malathion: a yellow insecticide used as a dust or spray to control garden pests and house flies and mites
Candidate hypernym: insecticide: a chemical used to kill insects → 1
Candidate hypernym: sow thistle: any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil → 0
Candidate hypernym: yardstick: a ruler or tape that is three feet long → 0
Candidate hypernym: flat: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus fusarium: a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness → 0
Candidate hypernym: yoke: a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together → 0
Candidate hypernym: enigma canon: a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries) → 0
Candidate hypernym: lomustine: an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease → 0
Candidate hypernym: secretary of transportation: the position of the head of the Department of Transportation → 0
Candidate hypernym: tantilla: black-headed snakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: wringer: a clothes dryer consisting of two rollers between which the wet clothes are squeezed → 0