Term: starveling: someone who is starving (or being starved)
Candidate hypernym: pauper: a person who is very poor → 1
Candidate hypernym: mosquito fern: small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America; naturalized in western and southern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: sound: the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause → 0
Candidate hypernym: vital capacity: the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer); used to determine the condition of lung tissue → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus chinchilla: type genus of the Chinchillidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: language barrier: barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages → 0
Candidate hypernym: pick's disease: a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia → 0
Candidate hypernym: flush toilet: a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it → 0
Candidate hypernym: state of the art: the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time → 0
Candidate hypernym: salvager: someone who salvages → 0
Candidate hypernym: lithomancy: divination by means of stones or stone talismans → 0