Term: medicinal leech: large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting
Candidate hypernym: worm: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae → 1
Candidate hypernym: whippet: small slender dog of greyhound type developed in England → 0
Candidate hypernym: information science: the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information → 0
Candidate hypernym: mortgage deed: deed embodying a mortgage → 0
Candidate hypernym: neutron bomb: atom bomb that produces lethal neutrons with less blast → 0
Candidate hypernym: radical: a character conveying the lexical meaning of a logogram → 0
Candidate hypernym: tapestry: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs → 0
Candidate hypernym: cup: a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl → 0
Candidate hypernym: screwball: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown → 0
Candidate hypernym: vagary: an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.) → 0
Candidate hypernym: alphabet: a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language → 0