Term: insulin: hormone secreted by the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas; regulates storage of glycogen in the liver and accelerates oxidation of sugar in cells
Candidate hypernym: body substance: the substance of the body → 1
Candidate hypernym: scrimmage line: line parallel to the goal lines where football linesmen line up at the start of each play in American football → 0
Candidate hypernym: imagination: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses → 0
Candidate hypernym: agony column: a newspaper column devoted to personal problems → 0
Candidate hypernym: morphological rule: a linguistic rule for the formation of words → 0
Candidate hypernym: cracticus: type genus of the Cracticidae: Australian butcherbirds → 0
Candidate hypernym: poronotus: a genus of Stromateidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: compression: applying pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: shtik: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating → 0
Candidate hypernym: dependence: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else → 0
Candidate hypernym: street name: slang for something (especially for an illegal drug) → 0