Term: ripper: a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
Candidate hypernym: murderer: a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being) → 1
Candidate hypernym: watchmaker: someone who makes or repairs watches → 0
Candidate hypernym: admonisher: someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided → 0
Candidate hypernym: quira: any of several tropical American trees some yielding economically important timber → 0
Candidate hypernym: hound's-tongue: perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus paramecium: freshwater ciliate with an oval body and long deep oral groove → 0
Candidate hypernym: engraulidae: anchovies → 0
Candidate hypernym: insomniac: someone who cannot sleep → 0
Candidate hypernym: natural science: the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus philodendron: any of several tropical American climbing plants with smooth shiny evergreen leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: pediculus: type genus of Pediculidae: true lice infecting humans → 0