Term: chain: a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
Candidate hypernym: ligament: any connection or unifying bond → 1
Candidate hypernym: abudefduf: damsel fishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: instrument: a person used by another to gain an end → 0
Candidate hypernym: scat: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument → 0
Candidate hypernym: dehydration: dryness resulting from the removal of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: stewardship: the position of steward → 0
Candidate hypernym: gymnast: an athlete who is skilled in gymnastics → 0
Candidate hypernym: surgical contraception: contraception by surgical sterilization → 0
Candidate hypernym: valediction: the act of saying farewell → 0
Candidate hypernym: pestilence: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of → 0
Candidate hypernym: diploid: (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number → 0