Term: karaites: a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
Candidate hypernym: sect: a subdivision of a larger religious group → 1
Candidate hypernym: straight angle: an angle of 180 degrees → 0
Candidate hypernym: guttiferae: widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber → 0
Candidate hypernym: peninsula: a large mass of land projecting into a body of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: etruscan: a native or inhabitant of ancient Etruria; the Etruscans influenced the Romans (who had suppressed them by about 200 BC) → 0
Candidate hypernym: northeast: the direction corresponding to the northeastward compass point → 0
Candidate hypernym: algometer: device for measuring pain caused by pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: wax: any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water → 0
Candidate hypernym: muscle cell: an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: benefit: a performance to raise money for a charitable cause → 0
Candidate hypernym: mesalliance: a marriage with a person of inferior social status → 0