Term: appeal: (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: gumweed: any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock → 0
Candidate hypernym: absolute zero: (cryogenics) the lowest temperature theoretically attainable (at which the kinetic energy of atoms and molecules is minimal); 0 Kelvin or -273.15 centigrade or -459.67 Fahrenheit → 0
Candidate hypernym: duplicidentata: in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: epididymis: a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens → 0
Candidate hypernym: t-bar lift: a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis → 0
Candidate hypernym: military capability: capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war → 0
Candidate hypernym: godfather: someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild → 0
Candidate hypernym: demand feeding: feeding a baby or animal whenever it shows a need → 0
Candidate hypernym: afterimage: an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased → 0
Candidate hypernym: platonism: (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names → 0