Term: bastinado: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels
Candidate hypernym: torture: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason → 1
Candidate hypernym: pappus: calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions → 0
Candidate hypernym: angiocardiogram: a series of X rays representing the action of the heart and its blood vessels after the injection of a radiopaque substance → 0
Candidate hypernym: degree centigrade: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature → 0
Candidate hypernym: racket: a loud and disturbing noise → 0
Candidate hypernym: prosody: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification → 0
Candidate hypernym: malpighia: type genus of the Malpighiaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: psychopsis papilio: orchid of South America and Trinidad having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium → 0
Candidate hypernym: sea holly: European evergreen eryngo with twisted spiny leaves naturalized on United States east coast; roots formerly used as an aphrodisiac → 0
Candidate hypernym: torture: unbearable physical pain → 0
Candidate hypernym: avicenniaceae: used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia → 0