Term: retaining wall: a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth)
Candidate hypernym: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: antiaircraft: artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes → 0
Candidate hypernym: astringency: a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker → 0
Candidate hypernym: portage: the cost of carrying or transporting → 0
Candidate hypernym: homozygote: (genetics) an organism having two identical alleles of a particular gene and so breeding true for the particular characteristic → 0
Candidate hypernym: jack: tool for exerting pressure or lifting → 0
Candidate hypernym: guitarfish: primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body → 0
Candidate hypernym: terminal velocity: the constant maximum velocity reached by a body falling through the atmosphere under the attraction of gravity → 0
Candidate hypernym: bouteloua: forage grasses → 0
Candidate hypernym: samovar: a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea → 0
Candidate hypernym: spider flower: native to South America but naturalized in warm parts of United States; grown for its long-lasting spider-shaped white to pink-purple flowers → 0