Term: alca: type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill
Candidate hypernym: bird genus: a genus of birds → 1
Candidate hypernym: melampsora: rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer → 0
Candidate hypernym: sugar-bush: evergreen shrub of southeastern United States with spikes of reddish yellow flowers and glandular hairy fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: ray: (mathematics) a straight line extending from a point → 0
Candidate hypernym: ritualist: an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms → 0
Candidate hypernym: order: a group of person living under a religious rule → 0
Candidate hypernym: marsupialia: coextensive with the subclass Metatheria → 0
Candidate hypernym: cattle egret: small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: leak: unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information → 0
Candidate hypernym: eminence grise: (French) a person who exercises power or influence in certain areas without holding an official position → 0
Candidate hypernym: kerr cell: optical device consisting of a transparent cell with two electrodes between two polarizing media; passes light only if the two planes of polarization are parallel; used as a high-speed shutter or to modulate a laser beam → 0