Term: house of burgesses: the lower house of legislature in colonial Virginia
Candidate hypernym: house: an official assembly having legislative powers → 1
Candidate hypernym: amorpha: any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: stripper: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books → 0
Candidate hypernym: gulf: a deep wide chasm → 0
Candidate hypernym: metalanguage: a language that can be used to describe languages → 0
Candidate hypernym: dodo: extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons → 0
Candidate hypernym: grand duchy: the domain controlled by a grand duke or grand duchess → 0
Candidate hypernym: number: an item of merchandise offered for sale → 0
Candidate hypernym: convection: (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: reproductive structure: the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction → 0
Candidate hypernym: split: a promised or claimed share of loot or money → 0