Term: pointillism: a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
Candidate hypernym: whole: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity → 1
Candidate hypernym: menstrual phase: the phase of the menstrual cycle during which the lining of the uterus is shed (the first day of menstrual flow is considered day 1 of the menstrual cycle) → 0
Candidate hypernym: saber rattling: the ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dentist: a person qualified to practice dentistry → 0
Candidate hypernym: lister: assessor who makes out the tax lists → 0
Candidate hypernym: licensed practical nurse: a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick → 0
Candidate hypernym: shot: an attempt to score in a game → 0
Candidate hypernym: fermi-dirac statistics: (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies) → 0
Candidate hypernym: aeciospore: spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium → 0
Candidate hypernym: shih-tzu: a Chinese breed of small dog similar to a Pekingese → 0
Candidate hypernym: stratified language: a language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage → 0