Term: linguistic competence: (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)
Candidate hypernym: competence: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually → 1
Candidate hypernym: foot-ton: 2240 foot-pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: encumbrance: a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) → 0
Candidate hypernym: neurosis: a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction → 0
Candidate hypernym: pennyroyal oil: aromatic oil from American pennyroyal → 0
Candidate hypernym: physic nut: small tropical American tree yielding purple dye and a tanning extract and bearing physic nuts containing a purgative oil that is poisonous in large quantities → 0
Candidate hypernym: agrobiology: the study of plant nutrition and growth especially as a way to increase crop yield → 0
Candidate hypernym: sump: a well or other hole in which water has collected → 0
Candidate hypernym: caryophyllales: corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae → 0
Candidate hypernym: vitharr: (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir; son of Odin; avenges his parent by slaying Fenrir at Ragnarok → 0
Candidate hypernym: sea anemone: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton → 0