Term: sinker: a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water)
Candidate hypernym: weight: an artifact that is heavy → 1
Candidate hypernym: prairie rocket: any of several western American plants of the genus Cheiranthus having large yellow flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: munition: military supplies → 0
Candidate hypernym: domestic fowl: a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl → 0
Candidate hypernym: astronomer: a physicist who studies astronomy → 0
Candidate hypernym: triangle: something approximating the shape of a triangle → 0
Candidate hypernym: collective noun: a noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things → 0
Candidate hypernym: sage grouse: large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: epidemiologist: a medical scientist who studies the transmission and control of epidemic diseases → 0
Candidate hypernym: collinsia: genus of hardy annual herbs of western United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: protection: payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence → 0