Term: christmas fern: North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds
Candidate hypernym: organism: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently → 1
Candidate hypernym: scrambler: electronic equipment that makes speech unintelligible during transmission and restores it at reception → 0
Candidate hypernym: calostoma lutescens: a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case → 0
Candidate hypernym: special air service: a specialist regiment of the British army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups) → 0
Candidate hypernym: persiflage: light teasing → 0
Candidate hypernym: oleaster: any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: touch football: a version of American football in which the ball carrier is touched rather than tackled → 0
Candidate hypernym: mefenamic acid: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug (trade name Ponstel) used to treat mild pain (especially menstrual cramps) → 0
Candidate hypernym: sepia: type genus of the Sepiidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: waterhouse-friderichsen syndrome: syndrome associated with bacterial meningitis; marked by sudden high fever and skin discoloration and petechiae with hemorrhage into the adrenal glands and cardiovascular collapse → 0
Candidate hypernym: american egret: a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America; it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus → 0