Term: ice age: any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface
Candidate hypernym: period: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed → 1
Candidate hypernym: dpt vaccine: abbreviation for combination vaccine against diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus toxoids; usually given in a series of injections in early childhood → 0
Candidate hypernym: screening: testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics → 0
Candidate hypernym: water right: right of access to water → 0
Candidate hypernym: quorum: a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business → 0
Candidate hypernym: petechia: a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) → 0
Candidate hypernym: trap-door spider: American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid → 0
Candidate hypernym: mentality: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations → 0
Candidate hypernym: anal stage: (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned → 0
Candidate hypernym: altaic: any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group → 0
Candidate hypernym: thalictrum: widely distributed genus of perennial herbs: meadow rue → 0