Term: butacaine: a white crystalline ester that is applied to mucous membranes as a local anesthetic
Candidate hypernym: local anesthetic: anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body → 1
Candidate hypernym: walk-up: an apartment building without an elevator → 0
Candidate hypernym: foie gras: a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles → 0
Candidate hypernym: militant: a militant reformer → 0
Candidate hypernym: common cotton grass: having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes → 0
Candidate hypernym: chloroxylon: deciduous trees of India and Sri Lanka → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus ibis: ibises → 0
Candidate hypernym: wretchedness: the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry → 0
Candidate hypernym: horse botfly: parasitic chiefly on horses → 0
Candidate hypernym: pipeful: the quantity of tobacco that can be smoked in a pipe at one time → 0
Candidate hypernym: zona pellucida: thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus → 0