Term: mother hen: a hen with chicks
Candidate hypernym: vertebrate: animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium → 1
Candidate hypernym: lecturer: someone who lectures professionally → 0
Candidate hypernym: oilman: a person who owns or operates oil wells → 0
Candidate hypernym: cherry tomato: small red to yellow tomatoes → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphyllanthes: one species; small fibrous-rooted perennial with rushlike foliage and deep blue flowers; sometimes placed in its own family Aphyllanthaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: home buyer: someone buying a house → 0
Candidate hypernym: ta'ziyeh: (Islam) a form of Iranian musical pageant that is the theatrical expression of religious passion; based on the Battle of Kerbala and performed annually (in Farsi) → 0
Candidate hypernym: crispness: an expressive style that is direct and to the point → 0
Candidate hypernym: smooth sumac: common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with waxy compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries → 0
Candidate hypernym: pig iron: crude iron tapped from a blast furnace → 0
Candidate hypernym: death instinct: (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die → 0