Term: patriarch: any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
Candidate hypernym: organism: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently → 1
Candidate hypernym: dental school: a graduate school offering study leading to degrees in dentistry → 0
Candidate hypernym: dock: an enclosure in a court of law where the defendant sits during the trial → 0
Candidate hypernym: civil marriage: a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman → 0
Candidate hypernym: barber: a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade → 0
Candidate hypernym: lates: a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water → 0
Candidate hypernym: compound pistil: consists of two or more fused carpels → 0
Candidate hypernym: allogamy: cross-fertilization in plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: qi: the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health → 0
Candidate hypernym: white bryony: white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran → 0
Candidate hypernym: cistaceae: shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean → 0