Term: cane: a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
Candidate hypernym: switch: a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment → 1
Candidate hypernym: wintun: a member of a North American Indian people living in the Sacramento valley in California → 0
Candidate hypernym: bernoulli's law: (statistics) law stating that a large number of items taken at random from a population will (on the average) have the population statistics → 0
Candidate hypernym: monosodium glutamate: white crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in Chinese cooking → 0
Candidate hypernym: adoptive parent: a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child → 0
Candidate hypernym: epikeratophakia: using a piece of donated corneal tissue to repair the eye of someone who has had a cataract removed → 0
Candidate hypernym: prayer: reverent petition to a deity → 0
Candidate hypernym: monera: prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions → 0
Candidate hypernym: bradycardia: abnormally slow heartbeat → 0
Candidate hypernym: lari: gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers → 0
Candidate hypernym: lunar month: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) → 0