Term: mercury thermometer: thermometer consisting of mercury contained in a bulb at the bottom of a graduated sealed glass capillary tube marked in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit; mercury expands with a rise in temperature causing a thin thread of mercury to rise in the tube
Candidate hypernym: artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole → 1
Candidate hypernym: yellow: yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons → 0
Candidate hypernym: smoke tree: greyish-green shrub of desert regions of southwestern United States and Mexico having sparse foliage and terminal spikes of bluish violet flowers; locally important as source of a light-colored honey of excellent flavor → 0
Candidate hypernym: hundredweight: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: giro: a check given by the British government to someone who is unemployed; it can be cashed either at a bank or at the post office → 0
Candidate hypernym: one-trillionth: one part in a trillion equal parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: archeology: the branch of anthropology that studies prehistoric people and their cultures → 0
Candidate hypernym: goat's rue: tall bushy European perennial grown for its pinnate foliage and slender spikes of blue flowers; sometimes used medicinally → 0
Candidate hypernym: end: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold → 0
Candidate hypernym: scabious: any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa → 0
Candidate hypernym: endolymph: the bodily fluid that fills the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear → 0