Term: mat: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
Candidate hypernym: artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole → 1
Candidate hypernym: rutaceae: a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales; have flowers that are divide into four or five parts and usually have a strong scent → 0
Candidate hypernym: canebrake rattlesnake: southern variety → 0
Candidate hypernym: isoptera: order of social insects that live in colonies, including: termites; often placed in subclass Exopterygota → 0
Candidate hypernym: expending: the act of spending money for goods or services → 0
Candidate hypernym: sustainability: the property of being sustainable → 0
Candidate hypernym: linkage: (genetics) traits that tend to be inherited together as a consequence of an association between their genes; all of the genes of a given chromosome are linked (where one goes they all go) → 0
Candidate hypernym: corn snake: large harmless snake of southeastern United States; often on farms → 0
Candidate hypernym: epikeratophakia: using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed → 0
Candidate hypernym: bacillus anthracis: a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon → 0
Candidate hypernym: gonioscopy: an examination of the front part of the eye to check the angle where the iris meets the cornea; it is used to distinguish between open-angle glaucoma and closed-angle glaucoma → 0