Term: acanthocephalan: any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines
Candidate hypernym: worm: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae → 1
Candidate hypernym: finishing line: a line indicating the location of the finish of a race → 0
Candidate hypernym: stepdaughter: a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: fly: an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth → 0
Candidate hypernym: cyrilla: shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white flowers and orange and crimson foliage → 0
Candidate hypernym: basic point defense missile system: a shipboard missile system → 0
Candidate hypernym: kinematics: the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass → 0
Candidate hypernym: darkling beetle: sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain → 0
Candidate hypernym: horseradish: coarse Eurasian plant cultivated for its thick white pungent root → 0
Candidate hypernym: historical school: a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms → 0
Candidate hypernym: cimicifuga: small genus of perennial herbs of north temperate regions: bugbane → 0