Term: microtome: scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination
Candidate hypernym: instrumentality: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end → 1
Candidate hypernym: crenelation: the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows → 0
Candidate hypernym: murrain: any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague → 0
Candidate hypernym: misfit: someone unable to adapt to their circumstances → 0
Candidate hypernym: boll weevil: greyish weevil that lays its eggs in cotton bolls destroying the cotton → 0
Candidate hypernym: solid: the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape → 0
Candidate hypernym: mikado: the emperor of Japan; when regarded as a religious leader the emperor is called tenno → 0
Candidate hypernym: wahhabi: a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam → 0
Candidate hypernym: halibut: marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: bridge: a wooden support that holds the strings up → 0
Candidate hypernym: valley pocket gopher: of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States → 0