Term: descant: a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
Candidate hypernym: auditory communication: communication that relies on hearing → 1
Candidate hypernym: acanthosis: an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) → 0
Candidate hypernym: verbascum: genus of coarse herbs and subshrubs mostly with woolly leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: newcastle disease: disease of domestic fowl and other birds → 0
Candidate hypernym: lactalbumin: albumin occurring in milk → 0
Candidate hypernym: pepperoni: a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage) → 0
Candidate hypernym: standing committee: a permanent committee → 0
Candidate hypernym: subscriber: someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication → 0
Candidate hypernym: time constant: the ratio of the inductance of a circuit in henries to its resistance in ohms → 0
Candidate hypernym: keeshond: a spitz-like dog having a shaggy greyish coat and tightly curled tail originating in Holland → 0
Candidate hypernym: propagation: the movement of a wave through a medium → 0