Term: precedent: a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time)
Candidate hypernym: subject: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion → 1
Candidate hypernym: acquisition: the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: period: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed → 0
Candidate hypernym: cycladic civilization: the Bronze Age civilization on the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean Sea that flourished 3000-1100 BC → 0
Candidate hypernym: flank: the side of military or naval formation → 0
Candidate hypernym: bocce ball: wooden ball that is bowled in the Italian game of bocce → 0
Candidate hypernym: dotted gayfeather: herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: twang: a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string) → 0
Candidate hypernym: balance beam: a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts → 0
Candidate hypernym: equation: the act of regarding as equal → 0
Candidate hypernym: peruvian balsam: tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam → 0