Term: methionine: a crystalline amino acid containing sulfur; found in most proteins and essential for nutrition
Candidate hypernym: essential amino acid: an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet → 1
Candidate hypernym: archil: any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil → 0
Candidate hypernym: trunk: the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber → 0
Candidate hypernym: strum: sound of strumming → 0
Candidate hypernym: woolly thistle: thistle of western North America having white woolly leaves → 0
Candidate hypernym: mayan: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy → 0
Candidate hypernym: ablation: surgical removal of a body part or tissue → 0
Candidate hypernym: nicol prism: optical device that produces plane-polarized light → 0
Candidate hypernym: quaker: one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear → 0
Candidate hypernym: king of england: the sovereign ruler of England → 0
Candidate hypernym: chanson de geste: Old French epic poems → 0