Term: stalking-horse: a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game
Candidate hypernym: horse: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times → 1
Candidate hypernym: church father: (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom → 0
Candidate hypernym: scrap iron: iron to be melted again and reworked → 0
Candidate hypernym: lasthenia: small genus of herbs of Pacific coast of North and South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: sensationalism: subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes → 0
Candidate hypernym: principle of superposition: (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest → 0
Candidate hypernym: reef squirrelfish: on reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: arame: an edible seaweed with a mild flavor → 0
Candidate hypernym: lanyard: a cord worn around the neck to hold a knife or whistle → 0
Candidate hypernym: kind: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality → 0
Candidate hypernym: receding: the act of becoming more distant → 0