Term: surface-to-air missile: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
Candidate hypernym: guided missile: a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices → 1
Candidate hypernym: civil death: the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment → 0
Candidate hypernym: flip-flop: a backward somersault → 0
Candidate hypernym: conceit: an artistic device or effect → 0
Candidate hypernym: placebo effect: any effect that seems to be a consequence of administering a placebo; the change is usually beneficial and is assumed result from the person's faith in the treatment or preconceptions about what the experimental drug was supposed to do; pharmacologists were the first to talk about placebo effects but now the idea has been generalized to many situations having nothing to do with drugs → 0
Candidate hypernym: ancient greek: the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire → 0
Candidate hypernym: umbilical cord: membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta → 0
Candidate hypernym: spiny-finned fish: a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays → 0
Candidate hypernym: factoid: a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item → 0
Candidate hypernym: mission: a special assignment that is given to a person or group → 0
Candidate hypernym: mountain spleenwort: a spleenwort of eastern North America → 0