Term: ballast: an electrical device for starting and regulating fluorescent and discharge lamps
Candidate hypernym: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: parthenote: a cell resulting from parthenogenesis → 0
Candidate hypernym: anthropologist: a social scientist who specializes in anthropology → 0
Candidate hypernym: dominoes: any of several games played with small rectangular blocks → 0
Candidate hypernym: acylation: the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound → 0
Candidate hypernym: liquid diet: a diet of foods that can be served in liquid or strained form (plus custards or puddings); prescribed after certain kinds of surgery → 0
Candidate hypernym: metallic: a yarn made partly or entirely of metal → 0
Candidate hypernym: parrot: a copycat who does not understand the words or acts being imitated → 0
Candidate hypernym: helvella: any fungus of the genus Helvella having the ascocarps stalked or pleated or often in folds → 0
Candidate hypernym: pandion: type genus of the Pandionidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: rush rose: woody yellow-flowered perennial of southeastern United States → 0