Term: halcyon: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: hognose bat: small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose → 0
Candidate hypernym: randomness: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work → 0
Candidate hypernym: medium: an intervening substance through which something is achieved → 0
Candidate hypernym: apophysis: (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra → 0
Candidate hypernym: curling: a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target → 0
Candidate hypernym: limpet: any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas → 0
Candidate hypernym: complete blood count: counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood → 0
Candidate hypernym: paleoecology: the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology → 0
Candidate hypernym: olympiad: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC → 0
Candidate hypernym: bowling pin: a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target → 0