Term: paternity suit: a lawsuit filed to determine the father of a child born out of wedlock (and to provide for the support of the child once paternity is determined)
Candidate hypernym: due process: (law) the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards → 1
Candidate hypernym: interlingua: an artificial language proposed for use as an auxiliary international language; based on words common to English and the Romance languages → 0
Candidate hypernym: stovepipe: chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue → 0
Candidate hypernym: aulostomus: type genus of the Aulostomidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: suppressor: a gene that suppresses the phenotypic expression of another gene (especially of a mutant gene) → 0
Candidate hypernym: diamond wedding anniversary: the 60th wedding anniversary → 0
Candidate hypernym: ape: any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all → 0
Candidate hypernym: vegetable matter: matter produced by plants or growing in the manner of a plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: mistletoe: shrub of central and southeastern Europe; partially parasitic on beeches, chestnuts and oaks → 0
Candidate hypernym: salubrity: the quality of being salubrious and invigorating → 0
Candidate hypernym: police state: a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) → 0