Term: tear: a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
Candidate hypernym: drop: a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); ; ; ; --Kipling → 1
Candidate hypernym: personal: a short newspaper article about a particular person or group → 0
Candidate hypernym: hedge: an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement → 0
Candidate hypernym: myxosporidian: mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens → 0
Candidate hypernym: carriage: a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses → 0
Candidate hypernym: oilfield: a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells) → 0
Candidate hypernym: digraph: two successive letters (especially two letters used to represent a single sound: `sh' in `shoe') → 0
Candidate hypernym: taxodiaceae: coniferous trees; traditionally considered an independent family though recently included in Cupressaceae in some classification systems → 0
Candidate hypernym: anaphoric pronoun: a pronoun that refers to an antecedent → 0
Candidate hypernym: buccinidae: whelks → 0
Candidate hypernym: phaneromania: an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) → 0