Term: spoon: a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
Candidate hypernym: container: any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another) → 1
Candidate hypernym: motivation: the act of motivating; providing incentive → 0
Candidate hypernym: sphecius: large solitary wasps: cicada killer → 0
Candidate hypernym: great knapweed: tall European perennial having purple flower heads → 0
Candidate hypernym: bastion: a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle → 0
Candidate hypernym: jute: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons → 0
Candidate hypernym: optative mood: a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: chinaberry: tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: snailflower: perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus → 0
Candidate hypernym: generally accepted accounting principles: a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures → 0
Candidate hypernym: jag: a sharp projection on an edge or surface → 0