Term: preventive strike: a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
Candidate hypernym: attack: (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) → 1
Candidate hypernym: earnestness: an earnest and sincere feeling → 0
Candidate hypernym: european hornbeam: medium-sized Old World tree with smooth grey bark and leaves like beech that turn yellow-orange in autumn → 0
Candidate hypernym: selector: a switch that is used to select among alternatives → 0
Candidate hypernym: polysemy: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings → 0
Candidate hypernym: jerusalem artichoke: edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke → 0
Candidate hypernym: broad buckler-fern: European shield fern → 0
Candidate hypernym: mosaicism: the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup → 0
Candidate hypernym: megadermatidae: Old World false vampire bats → 0
Candidate hypernym: backfire: a miscalculation that recoils on its maker → 0
Candidate hypernym: white dogtooth violet: North American dogtooth having solitary white flowers with yellow centers and blue or pink exteriors → 0