Term: black-headed snake: small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
Candidate hypernym: diapsid: reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye → 1
Candidate hypernym: rendition: the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance → 0
Candidate hypernym: screech owl: any owl that has a screeching cry → 0
Candidate hypernym: gig: a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting → 0
Candidate hypernym: philosophical doctrine: a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy → 0
Candidate hypernym: marchioness: the wife or widow of a marquis → 0
Candidate hypernym: direct mail: advertising sent directly to prospective customers via the mail → 0
Candidate hypernym: omomyid: extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins → 0
Candidate hypernym: penitent: (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) → 0
Candidate hypernym: nautical mile: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile → 0
Candidate hypernym: physical anthropology: the branch of anthropology dealing with the genesis and variation of human beings → 0