Term: jaws of life: hydraulic tool inserted into a wrecked vehicle and used to pry the wreckage apart in order to provide access to people trapped inside
Candidate hypernym: physical entity: an entity that has physical existence → 1
Candidate hypernym: recognition: the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country → 0
Candidate hypernym: selvage: border consisting of an ornamental fringe at either end of an oriental carpet → 0
Candidate hypernym: hagiology: literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints → 0
Candidate hypernym: plum-yew: any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals → 0
Candidate hypernym: forlorn hope: a hopeless or desperate enterprise → 0
Candidate hypernym: black mamba: a highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite → 0
Candidate hypernym: angiopathy: any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts → 0
Candidate hypernym: global warming: an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) → 0
Candidate hypernym: archaist: a person who archaizes → 0
Candidate hypernym: varnish tree: small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained → 0