Term: adoption: a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
Candidate hypernym: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked → 1
Candidate hypernym: street: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction → 0
Candidate hypernym: calash: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage → 0
Candidate hypernym: analyticity: the property of being analytic → 0
Candidate hypernym: eastern ground snake: in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: handsomeness: the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) → 0
Candidate hypernym: strike-slip fault: a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally → 0
Candidate hypernym: vice chancellor: a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor → 0
Candidate hypernym: lo/ovral: trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel → 0
Candidate hypernym: madia: genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light → 0
Candidate hypernym: olive: small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil → 0