Term: famine: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Candidate hypernym: calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune → 1
Candidate hypernym: monocanthus: type genus of the Monocanthidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: lag screw: a heavy woodscrew with a square or hexagonal head that is driven in with a wrench → 0
Candidate hypernym: blastogenesis: theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm → 0
Candidate hypernym: baronetage: the collective body of baronets → 0
Candidate hypernym: aldrovanda: one species: waterwheel plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: delaware: a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania → 0
Candidate hypernym: luyia: a Bantu language → 0
Candidate hypernym: subnormality: the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) → 0
Candidate hypernym: kansa: the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa → 0
Candidate hypernym: corbel arch: (architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet → 0