Term: mahayana: a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation; China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; Mongolia
Candidate hypernym: buddhism: a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha → 1
Candidate hypernym: power of attorney: a legal instrument authorizing someone to act as the grantor's agent → 0
Candidate hypernym: klaxon: a kind of loud horn formerly used on motor vehicles → 0
Candidate hypernym: polar coordinate: either of two values that locate a point on a plane by its distance from a fixed pole and its angle from a fixed line passing through the pole → 0
Candidate hypernym: freedom from cruel and unusual punishment: a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution → 0
Candidate hypernym: cytogenesis: the origin and development and variation of cells → 0
Candidate hypernym: tug: a sudden abrupt pull → 0
Candidate hypernym: ornamentation: the act of adding extraneous decorations to something → 0
Candidate hypernym: preformation: a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell → 0
Candidate hypernym: polemic: a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma) → 0
Candidate hypernym: neurotic: a person suffering from neurosis → 0