Term: downy birch: European birch with dull white to pale brown bark and somewhat drooping hairy branches
Candidate hypernym: living thing: a living (or once living) entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: slap: a blow from a flat object (as an open hand) → 0
Candidate hypernym: grocery bag: a sack for holding customer's groceries → 0
Candidate hypernym: phyllodoce: small genus of evergreen Arctic and alpine shrubs → 0
Candidate hypernym: horology: the art of designing and making clocks → 0
Candidate hypernym: maple syrup urine disease: an inherited disorder of metabolism in which the urine has a odor characteristic of maple syrup; if untreated it can lead to mental retardation and death in early childhood → 0
Candidate hypernym: physical property: any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions → 0
Candidate hypernym: dibasic salt: a salt derived by replacing two hydrogen atoms per molecule → 0
Candidate hypernym: hint: a slight indication → 0
Candidate hypernym: white man's burden: the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects → 0
Candidate hypernym: fussiness: unnecessary elaborateness in details → 0