Term: ergot: a fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid
Candidate hypernym: living thing: a living (or once living) entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: instability: unreliability attributable to being unstable → 0
Candidate hypernym: poll: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people → 0
Candidate hypernym: graverobber: someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection → 0
Candidate hypernym: contempt: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike → 0
Candidate hypernym: historicalness: the state of having in fact existed in the past → 0
Candidate hypernym: brass band: a group of musicians playing only brass and percussion instruments → 0
Candidate hypernym: cytolysin: a substance that partly or completely destroys animal cells → 0
Candidate hypernym: centesimo: a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile → 0
Candidate hypernym: diet: a prescribed selection of foods → 0
Candidate hypernym: cup: a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces → 0