Term: upbringing: properties acquired during a person's formative years
Candidate hypernym: inheritance: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors → 1
Candidate hypernym: iron maiden: instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim → 0
Candidate hypernym: backfield: the offensive football players who line up behind the linemen → 0
Candidate hypernym: unison: (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: bird feed: food given to birds; usually mixed seeds → 0
Candidate hypernym: grandfather clause: an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War → 0
Candidate hypernym: short account: a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own) → 0
Candidate hypernym: pavis: (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position → 0
Candidate hypernym: undertide: a current below the surface of a fluid → 0
Candidate hypernym: trumpetwood: tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems → 0
Candidate hypernym: pick's disease: a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia → 0