Term: vivisection: the act of operating on living animals (especially in scientific research)
Candidate hypernym: procedure: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result → 1
Candidate hypernym: log: measuring instrument that consists of a float that trails from a ship by a knotted line in order to measure the ship's speed through the water → 0
Candidate hypernym: brown bear: large ferocious bear of Eurasia → 0
Candidate hypernym: united states army rangers: a specially trained elite unit of the United States Army → 0
Candidate hypernym: mess jacket: waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners → 0
Candidate hypernym: pathan: an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan → 0
Candidate hypernym: cutout: a photograph from which the background has been cut away → 0
Candidate hypernym: death knell: a bell rung to announce a death → 0
Candidate hypernym: power unit: a measure of electric power → 0
Candidate hypernym: doubly transitive verb: a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object → 0
Candidate hypernym: random sample: a sample in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected → 0