Term: society of jesus: a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: chyme: a semiliquid mass of partially digested food that passes from the stomach through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum → 0
Candidate hypernym: plecoptera: stoneflies → 0
Candidate hypernym: first blush: at the first glimpse or impression → 0
Candidate hypernym: bagel: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust → 0
Candidate hypernym: kilometers per hour: the ratio of the distance traveled (in kilometers) to the time spent traveling (in hours) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydromancer: one who practices hydromancy → 0
Candidate hypernym: communications satellite: an artificial satellite that relays signals back to earth; moves in a geostationary orbit → 0
Candidate hypernym: loment: seedpods that are constricted between the seeds and that break apart when mature into single-seeded segments → 0
Candidate hypernym: rewrite: something that has been written again → 0
Candidate hypernym: stingray: large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds → 0