Term: biometric identification: the automatic identification of living individuals by using their physiological and behavioral characteristics
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: repository: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) → 0
Candidate hypernym: pipefish: fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates → 0
Candidate hypernym: wedge bone: part of the sirloin nearest the rump → 0
Candidate hypernym: moloch: any lizard of the genus Moloch → 0
Candidate hypernym: pantotheria: generalized extinct mammals widespread during the Jurassic; commonly conceded to be ancestral to marsupial and placental mammals → 0
Candidate hypernym: capital gain: the amount by which the selling price of an asset exceeds the purchase price; the gain is realized when the asset is sold → 0
Candidate hypernym: listera: genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: hieroglyph: a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt → 0
Candidate hypernym: onychomys: grasshopper mice → 0
Candidate hypernym: aphanite: fine-grained homogeneous rock (such as basalt) containing minerals undetectable by the naked eye → 0