Term: california sycamore: tall tree of Baja California having deciduous bark and large alternate palmately lobed leaves and ball-shaped clusters of flowers
Candidate hypernym: plane tree: any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits → 1
Candidate hypernym: autoclave: a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments → 0
Candidate hypernym: order: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families → 0
Candidate hypernym: stellate venule: a star-shaped group of venules in the renal cortex → 0
Candidate hypernym: shift key: the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters → 0
Candidate hypernym: decomposition: (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action → 0
Candidate hypernym: loathsomeness: the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions → 0
Candidate hypernym: groupthink: decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) → 0
Candidate hypernym: housing estate: a residential area where the houses were all planned and built at the same time → 0
Candidate hypernym: dangling participle: a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view' → 0
Candidate hypernym: part: a portion of a natural object → 0