Term: grapevine: gossip spread by spoken communication
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: pieris: type genus of the Pieridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: plainclothesman: a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty → 0
Candidate hypernym: metallic bond: a chemical bond in which electrons are shared over many nuclei and electronic conduction occurs → 0
Candidate hypernym: phytophthora: destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: oxytocic: a drug that induces labor by stimulating contractions of the muscles of the uterus → 0
Candidate hypernym: worldly possession: a commodity or good associated with the earthly, rather than the spiritual, existence of human beings → 0
Candidate hypernym: morgue: a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation → 0
Candidate hypernym: scientology: a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment → 0
Candidate hypernym: unknown: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation → 0
Candidate hypernym: graduate: a measuring instrument for measuring fluid volume; a glass container (cup or cylinder or flask) whose sides are marked with or divided into amounts → 0