Term: medicinal leech: large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting
Candidate hypernym: leech: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end → 1
Candidate hypernym: boothose: protective stockings worn with or in place of boots → 0
Candidate hypernym: citrate: a salt or ester of citric acid → 0
Candidate hypernym: barbary ape: tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar → 0
Candidate hypernym: vaulting horse: a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting → 0
Candidate hypernym: reformer: a disputant who advocates reform → 0
Candidate hypernym: squib: firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise → 0
Candidate hypernym: thing: a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion → 0
Candidate hypernym: helleborine: any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis → 0
Candidate hypernym: spud: a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds → 0
Candidate hypernym: eccentricity: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path → 0