Term: rebuff: an instance of driving away or warding off
Candidate hypernym: rejection: the speech act of rejecting → 1
Candidate hypernym: symphonic poem: an orchestral composition based on literature or folk tales → 0
Candidate hypernym: knocker: a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hostaceae: one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta → 0
Candidate hypernym: tree of knowledge: the biblical tree in the Garden of Eden whose forbidden fruit was tasted by Adam and Eve → 0
Candidate hypernym: scallop shell: a shell of a scallop → 0
Candidate hypernym: tripletail: large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail → 0
Candidate hypernym: utahraptor: large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous → 0
Candidate hypernym: secretary of energy: the position of the head of the Department of Energy → 0
Candidate hypernym: dominican monetary unit: monetary unit in the Dominican Republic → 0
Candidate hypernym: megachiroptera: fruit bats → 0