Term: stretch reflex: reflex contraction of a muscle when an attached tendon is pulled; important in maintaining erect posture
Candidate hypernym: reflex: an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus → 1
Candidate hypernym: skunk cabbage: deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe → 0
Candidate hypernym: corkage: a charge added at a restaurant for every bottle of wine served that was not bought on the premises → 0
Candidate hypernym: associateship: the position of associate (as in an office or academy) → 0
Candidate hypernym: telekinesis: the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force → 0
Candidate hypernym: head: a person who is in charge → 0
Candidate hypernym: pilgrimage: a journey to a sacred place → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus fothergilla: small genus of deciduous shrubs of the southeastern United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: overhand stitch: a stitch passing over an edge vertically → 0
Candidate hypernym: water: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) → 0
Candidate hypernym: reticule: a woman's drawstring handbag; usually made of net or beading or brocade; used in 18th and 19th centuries → 0