Term: dermestidae: carpet beetles
Candidate hypernym: arthropod family: any of the arthropods → 1
Candidate hypernym: glossinidae: flies closely related to the Muscidae: tsetse flies → 0
Candidate hypernym: ruritania: an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance → 0
Candidate hypernym: fricative consonant: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract → 0
Candidate hypernym: shtik: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating → 0
Candidate hypernym: maturity: the date on which an obligation must be repaid → 0
Candidate hypernym: back-formation: a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it → 0
Candidate hypernym: polysyndeton: using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy') → 0
Candidate hypernym: dialect atlas: an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features → 0
Candidate hypernym: concentration gradient: a gradient in concentration of a solute as a function of distance through a solution → 0
Candidate hypernym: polymer: a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers → 0