Term: belles-lettres: creative writing valued for esthetic content
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: arms manufacturer: someone who manufactures arms and munitions → 0
Candidate hypernym: bryanthus: procumbent Old World mat-forming evergreen shrub with racemes of pinkish-white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: anthropogenesis: the evolution or genesis of the human race → 0
Candidate hypernym: spandex: an elastic synthetic fabric → 0
Candidate hypernym: natural family planning: any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs; coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle → 0
Candidate hypernym: saintliness: the quality of resembling a saint → 0
Candidate hypernym: step stool: a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat → 0
Candidate hypernym: midterm examination: an examination administered in the middle of an academic term → 0
Candidate hypernym: crick: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are British) → 0
Candidate hypernym: weeds: a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning → 0