Term: rearguard: a detachment assigned to protect the rear of a (retreating) military body
Candidate hypernym: detachment: a small unit of troops of special composition → 1
Candidate hypernym: etiolation: a pale and sickly appearance → 0
Candidate hypernym: intergalactic space: the space between galaxies → 0
Candidate hypernym: halocarpus: dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium → 0
Candidate hypernym: movement: the act of changing the location of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: spank: a slap with the flat of the hand → 0
Candidate hypernym: blood blister: blister containing blood or bloody serum usually caused by an injury → 0
Candidate hypernym: gynecocracy: a political system governed by a woman → 0
Candidate hypernym: semester: one of two divisions of an academic year → 0
Candidate hypernym: polemoniaceae: a widely distributed family of chiefly herbaceous plants of the order Polemoniales; often have showy flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: deflection: a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting → 0