Term: bone of contention: the subject of a dispute
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: teuton: a member of the ancient Germanic people who migrated from Jutland to southern Gaul and were annihilated by the Romans → 0
Candidate hypernym: purdah: the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded → 0
Candidate hypernym: potato scab bacteria: cause of a potato disease characterized by brownish corky tissue → 0
Candidate hypernym: back: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage → 0
Candidate hypernym: carrier wave: a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal → 0
Candidate hypernym: humate: material that is high in humic acids → 0
Candidate hypernym: field artillery: movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) → 0
Candidate hypernym: thwack: a hard blow with a flat object → 0
Candidate hypernym: acridity: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone → 0
Candidate hypernym: plinian eruption: a volcanic eruption in which a stream of gas and ash is violently ejected to a height of several miles → 0