Term: fluorescent lamp: lamp consisting of a tube coated on the inside with a fluorescent material; mercury vapor in the tube emits ultraviolet radiation that is converted to visible radiation by the fluorescent material
Candidate hypernym: lamp: an artificial source of visible illumination → 1
Candidate hypernym: bourtree: a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies → 0
Candidate hypernym: teliospore: a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus → 0
Candidate hypernym: boltonia: genus of tall leafy perennial herbs of eastern America and eastern Asia having flowers that resemble asters → 0
Candidate hypernym: gate: total admission receipts at a sports event → 0
Candidate hypernym: holothuria: type genus of the Holothuridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: brucella: an aerobic Gram-negative coccobacillus that causes brucellosis; can be used as a bioweapon → 0
Candidate hypernym: worthlessness: the quality of being without practical use → 0
Candidate hypernym: inferiority complex: a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated → 0
Candidate hypernym: quarter: (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided → 0
Candidate hypernym: rationale: (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) → 0