Term: watchdog: a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
Candidate hypernym: living thing: a living (or once living) entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: stoning: the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) → 0
Candidate hypernym: zero tolerance: extreme intolerance of antisocial behavior (usually by an uncompromising application of the law) → 0
Candidate hypernym: compositeness: the property of being a composite number → 0
Candidate hypernym: bird's-foot fern: cliff brake of California and Baja California having purple-brown leafstalks → 0
Candidate hypernym: leboyer method of childbirth: a method of childbirth that tries to minimize the trauma for the newborn; delivery occurs in a quiet dimly lit room and the infant's head is not pulled and immediate bonding between mother and child is encouraged → 0
Candidate hypernym: japanese beech: a beech native to Japan having soft light yellowish-brown wood → 0
Candidate hypernym: ergosterol: a plant sterol that is converted into vitamin D by ultraviolet radiation → 0
Candidate hypernym: piccolo: a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute → 0
Candidate hypernym: spleenwort: any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium → 0
Candidate hypernym: scarlet musk flower: viscid branched perennial of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having tuberous roots and deep red flowers → 0