Term: linguistics: the scientific study of language
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: garage: an outbuilding (or part of a building) for housing automobiles → 0
Candidate hypernym: oppression: the act of subjugating by cruelty → 0
Candidate hypernym: latrine: a public toilet in a military area → 0
Candidate hypernym: mahayana: one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and Japan → 0
Candidate hypernym: lamb chop: chop cut from a lamb → 0
Candidate hypernym: knight errantry: (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry → 0
Candidate hypernym: business card: a card on which are printed the person's name and business affiliation → 0
Candidate hypernym: singular: the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus listeria: a genus of aerobic motile bacteria of the family Corynebacteriaceae containing small Gram-positive rods → 0
Candidate hypernym: femtochemistry: the branch of chemistry that studies elementary (often very fast) chemical reactions as they occur; the experimental methods are often based on the use of femtosecond laser pulses → 0