Term: spying: the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
Candidate hypernym: intelligence: the operation of gathering information about an enemy → 1
Candidate hypernym: sforzando: (music) a notation written above a note and indicating that it is to be played with a strong initial attack → 0
Candidate hypernym: fetishist: one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) → 0
Candidate hypernym: beggar-my-neighbor policy: a policy of promoting oneself at the expense of others; used especially of national policy → 0
Candidate hypernym: multiengine airplane: a plane with two or more engines → 0
Candidate hypernym: manduca: moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomato hornworms → 0
Candidate hypernym: european tortoise: small land tortoise of southern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: magnetograph: a scientific instrument that registers magnetic variations (especially variations of the earth's magnetic field) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cycadopsida: palmlike gymnosperms: includes the surviving order Cycadales and several extinct orders; possibly not a natural group; in some systems considered a class (Cycadopsida) and in others a subdivision (Cycadophytina or Cycadophyta) → 0
Candidate hypernym: yellowtail flounder: flesh of American flounder having a yellowish tail → 0
Candidate hypernym: grass vetch: annual European vetch with red flowers → 0