Term: aspirin: the acetylated derivative of salicylic acid; used as an analgesic anti-inflammatory drug (trade names Bayer, Empirin, and St. Joseph) usually taken in tablet form; used as an antipyretic; slows clotting of the blood by poisoning platelets
Candidate hypernym: salicylate: a salt of salicylic acid (included in several commonly used drugs) → 1
Candidate hypernym: banded palm civet: an East Indian civet → 0
Candidate hypernym: source program: a program written in a language from which statements are translated into machine language → 0
Candidate hypernym: skimmer: a rapid superficial reader → 0
Candidate hypernym: sawfish: primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout → 0
Candidate hypernym: blanket: anything that covers → 0
Candidate hypernym: neoplatonism: a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable → 0
Candidate hypernym: auditory communication: communication that relies on hearing → 0
Candidate hypernym: mathematical space: (mathematics) any set of points that satisfy a set of postulates of some kind → 0
Candidate hypernym: whit-tuesday: the day after Whitmonday → 0
Candidate hypernym: snuffler: a person who breathes noisily (as through a nose blocked by mucus) → 0