Term: enabling legislation: legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law
Candidate hypernym: legislation: law enacted by a legislative body → 1
Candidate hypernym: bulldog ant: any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia → 0
Candidate hypernym: erythroblastosis fetalis: severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis → 0
Candidate hypernym: direction finder: radio; determines the direction of incoming radio waves → 0
Candidate hypernym: leadplant: shrub of sandy woodlands and stream banks of western United States having hoary pinnate flowers and dull-colored racemose flowers; thought to indicate the presence of lead ore → 0
Candidate hypernym: bitterness: a rough and bitter manner → 0
Candidate hypernym: chrysophrys: Australian snapper → 0
Candidate hypernym: vena bulbi vestibuli: vein of the vestibular bulb → 0
Candidate hypernym: pressure: the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit) → 0
Candidate hypernym: silk: animal fibers produced by silkworms and other larvae that spin cocoons and by most spiders → 0
Candidate hypernym: conviviality: a jovial nature → 0