Term: habeas corpus: the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment
Candidate hypernym: civil right: right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality → 1
Candidate hypernym: atrioventricular node: a node of specialized heart muscle located in the septal wall of the right atrium; receives impulses from the sinoatrial node and transmits them to atrioventricular bundle → 0
Candidate hypernym: write-off: (accounting) reduction in the book value of an asset → 0
Candidate hypernym: garden hose: a hose used for watering a lawn or garden → 0
Candidate hypernym: asphodelaceae: one of many subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: bellwort: any of various plants of the genus Uvularia having yellowish drooping bell-shaped flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: eskimo curlew: New World curlew that breeds in northern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: regular polygon: a polygon with all sides and all angles equal → 0
Candidate hypernym: mast: a vertical spar for supporting sails → 0
Candidate hypernym: lemon sole: European flatfish highly valued as food → 0
Candidate hypernym: degeneration: the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality → 0