Term: shank: a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
Candidate hypernym: physical entity: an entity that has physical existence → 1
Candidate hypernym: blenheim spaniel: red-and-white variety of English toy spaniel → 0
Candidate hypernym: shoot-'em-up: a movie featuring shooting and violence → 0
Candidate hypernym: pairing: the act of grouping things or people in pairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: thistledown: pappus of a thistle consisting of silky featherlike hairs attached to the seed-like fruit of a thistle → 0
Candidate hypernym: hold: a cell in a jail or prison → 0
Candidate hypernym: stroke: a light touch with the hands → 0
Candidate hypernym: desert holly: handsome low saltbush of arid southwestern United States and Mexico having blue-green prickly-edged leaves often used for Christmas decoration → 0
Candidate hypernym: word salad: jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia → 0
Candidate hypernym: whig: a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories → 0
Candidate hypernym: sepsis: the presence of pus-forming bacteria or their toxins in the blood or tissues → 0