Term: barley: a grain of barley
Candidate hypernym: grain: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses → 1
Candidate hypernym: ridge rope: either of a pair of lifelines running alongside the bowsprit of a ship → 0
Candidate hypernym: letter security: a stock or bond that is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and cannot be sold in the public market → 0
Candidate hypernym: principle of relativity: (physics) a universal law that states that the laws of mechanics are not affected by a uniform rectilinear motion of the system of coordinates to which they are referred → 0
Candidate hypernym: featherweight: a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: electron gun: the electrode that is the source of electrons in a cathode-ray tube or electron microscope; consists of a cathode that emits a stream of electrons and the electrostatic or electromagnetic apparatus that focuses it → 0
Candidate hypernym: dial: a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called → 0
Candidate hypernym: macaque: short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: melioration: the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning → 0
Candidate hypernym: half gainer: a dive in which the diver throws the feet forward and up to complete a half backward somersault and enters the water facing the diving board → 0
Candidate hypernym: nitrogen cycle: the circulation of nitrogen; nitrates from the soil are absorbed by plants which are eaten by animals that die and decay returning the nitrogen back to the soil → 0