Term: defense: an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack
Candidate hypernym: organization: a group of people who work together → 1
Candidate hypernym: knitting needle: needle consisting of a slender rod with pointed ends; usually used in pairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: cotinus: smoke trees → 0
Candidate hypernym: sole: right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European → 0
Candidate hypernym: reciter: someone who recites from memory → 0
Candidate hypernym: utopian: an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer → 0
Candidate hypernym: bitterroot: showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower → 0
Candidate hypernym: glory pea: any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes → 0
Candidate hypernym: saltwort: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash → 0
Candidate hypernym: celibate: an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity → 0
Candidate hypernym: graft: the act of grafting something onto something else → 0