Term: legislative act: an act passed by a legislative body
Candidate hypernym: act: a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body → 1
Candidate hypernym: virus: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyrenomycetes: class of fungi in which the fruiting body is a perithecium; includes powdery mildews and ergot and Neurospora → 0
Candidate hypernym: homogeny: (biology) similarity because of common evolution → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellow pine: hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine → 0
Candidate hypernym: g: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated → 0
Candidate hypernym: phallales: order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes → 0
Candidate hypernym: shtik: (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention → 0
Candidate hypernym: case: nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: topology: the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions → 0
Candidate hypernym: sassafras oil: oil from root bark of sassafras trees; used in perfumery and as a disinfectant → 0