Term: national oceanic and atmospheric administration: an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
Candidate hypernym: agency: an administrative unit of government → 1
Candidate hypernym: tamiasciurus: American red squirrels → 0
Candidate hypernym: fruit bat: large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: sentimentalism: the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form → 0
Candidate hypernym: human botfly: large tropical American fly; parasitic on humans and other mammals → 0
Candidate hypernym: sidalcea: genus of showy plants of western North America having palmate leaves and variously colored racemose flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: toucan: brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical America having a very large thin-walled beak → 0
Candidate hypernym: temporalis muscle: muscle extending from the temporal fossa to the coronoid process of the mandible; acts to raise the mandible and close the jaws → 0
Candidate hypernym: physical rehabilitation: providing help for disabled persons; the removal or reduction of disabilities → 0
Candidate hypernym: blowhole: the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull → 0
Candidate hypernym: geocentric parallax: the parallax of a celestial body using two points on the surface of the earth as the earth rotates → 0