Term: shearing: removing by cutting off or clipping
Candidate hypernym: cut: the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends → 1
Candidate hypernym: bodkin: formerly a long hairpin; usually with an ornamental head → 0
Candidate hypernym: mosaicism: the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup → 0
Candidate hypernym: gerrididae: an arthropod family that includes water striders → 0
Candidate hypernym: import credit: credit opened by an importer at a bank in his own country upon which an exporter may draw → 0
Candidate hypernym: thomomys: western pocket gophers → 0
Candidate hypernym: pub crawl: a tour of bars or public houses (usually taking one drink at each stop) → 0
Candidate hypernym: quincentennial: the 500th anniversary (or the celebration of it) → 0
Candidate hypernym: macaca: macaques; rhesus monkeys → 0
Candidate hypernym: trial and error: experimenting until a solution is found → 0
Candidate hypernym: acoustic: a remedy for hearing loss or deafness → 0