Term: thinning shears: shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair
Candidate hypernym: shears: large scissors with strong blades → 1
Candidate hypernym: tamarind: large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys → 0
Candidate hypernym: rule: a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: spic: (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent → 0
Candidate hypernym: altaic: a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: candlemaker: a person who makes or sells candles → 0
Candidate hypernym: berberis: large genus of shrubs of temperate zones of New and Old Worlds → 0
Candidate hypernym: ostentation: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity → 0
Candidate hypernym: water-mint: a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: yogacara: one of the main traditions of Mahayana Buddhism; holds that the mind is real but that objects are just ideas or states of consciousness → 0
Candidate hypernym: milliammeter: a sensitive ammeter graduated in milliamperes → 0