Term: backstop: (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field
Candidate hypernym: structure: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts → 1
Candidate hypernym: mercurial ointment: an ointment containing mercury → 0
Candidate hypernym: ytterbium: a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime → 0
Candidate hypernym: scheduled fire: prearranged fire delivered at a predetermined time → 0
Candidate hypernym: measure: a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance → 0
Candidate hypernym: nanomia: small creatures resembling pieces of fuzzy rope; each with a cluster of swimming bells serving as the head and long elastic tentacles for drawing in prey → 0
Candidate hypernym: novelist: one who writes novels → 0
Candidate hypernym: polygala: type genus of the Polygalaceae: milkwort; senega; snakeroot → 0
Candidate hypernym: platonist: an advocate of Platonism → 0
Candidate hypernym: dolly: conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted → 0
Candidate hypernym: cutin: (biochemistry) a waxy transparent material that occurs in the cuticle of plants and consists of highly polymerized esters of fatty acids → 0