Term: tsetse fly: bloodsucking African fly; transmits sleeping sickness etc.
Candidate hypernym: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: allegory: an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor → 0
Candidate hypernym: sealyham terrier: a wire-haired terrier with short legs that was first bred in Sealyham → 0
Candidate hypernym: armillary sphere: a celestial globe consisting of metal hoops; used by early astronomers to determine the positions of stars → 0
Candidate hypernym: nightgown: lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women → 0
Candidate hypernym: adductor: a muscle that draws a body part toward the median line → 0
Candidate hypernym: common mugwort: European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets → 0
Candidate hypernym: curvature: the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve → 0
Candidate hypernym: turgor: (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane → 0
Candidate hypernym: arachnophobia: a morbid fear of spiders → 0
Candidate hypernym: hand-schuller-christian disease: inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus → 0