Term: dead duck: something doomed to failure
Candidate hypernym: failure: lack of success → 1
Candidate hypernym: fore-topmast: the topmast next above the foremast → 0
Candidate hypernym: amyloid: a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus eoraptor: primitive theropod found in Argentina; early Triassic → 0
Candidate hypernym: legion: a large military unit → 0
Candidate hypernym: silver screen: the film industry → 0
Candidate hypernym: conjunction: (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac → 0
Candidate hypernym: evaluation: an appraisal of the value of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: epigram: a witty saying → 0
Candidate hypernym: home loan: a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home → 0
Candidate hypernym: paleo-american: a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch → 0