Term: pedant: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
Candidate hypernym: scholar: a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines → 1
Candidate hypernym: heartburning: intense resentment → 0
Candidate hypernym: chalk: a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces → 0
Candidate hypernym: term: the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent → 0
Candidate hypernym: purkinje fiber: a specialized cardiac muscle fiber that is part of the Purkinje network → 0
Candidate hypernym: mass unit: a unit of measurement for mass → 0
Candidate hypernym: scaly lentinus: a fungus with a scaly cap and white flesh and a ring on the stalk (with scales below the ring); odor reminiscent of licorice → 0
Candidate hypernym: dualism: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil → 0
Candidate hypernym: southern buckthorn: shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: lanyard: (nautical) a line used for extending or fastening rigging on ships → 0
Candidate hypernym: corylaceae: used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus → 0