Term: excavation: the act of digging
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: acoustic storage: a storage device consisting of acoustic delay lines → 0
Candidate hypernym: outer planet: (astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cruel and unusual punishment: punishment prohibited by the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or degradation or punishment too severe for the crime committed → 0
Candidate hypernym: lumbar nerve: any of five pairs of spinal nerves emerging from the lumbar section of the spinal cord → 0
Candidate hypernym: gaur: wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India → 0
Candidate hypernym: monolingual: a person who knows only one language → 0
Candidate hypernym: tea urn: an urn in which tea is brewed and from which it is served → 0
Candidate hypernym: horde: a nomadic community → 0
Candidate hypernym: herniated disc: a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region → 0
Candidate hypernym: paradoxurus: palm civets → 0