Term: secretary of defense: the position of the head of the Department of Defense
Candidate hypernym: secretaryship: the position of secretary → 1
Candidate hypernym: dog's mercury: European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: cenogenesis: introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) → 0
Candidate hypernym: sniff: sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose → 0
Candidate hypernym: tannin: any of various complex phenolic substances of plant origin; used in tanning and in medicine → 0
Candidate hypernym: hiv: infection by the human immunodeficiency virus → 0
Candidate hypernym: nineties: the decade from 1990 to 1999 → 0
Candidate hypernym: identification particle: a tiny particle of material that can be added to a product to indicate the source of manufacture → 0
Candidate hypernym: gun trigger: lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun → 0
Candidate hypernym: scottish: the dialect of English used in Scotland → 0
Candidate hypernym: mammalia: warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female → 0