Term: sterilization: the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
Candidate hypernym: psychological feature: a feature of the mental life of a living organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: mendelism: the theory of inheritance based on Mendel's laws → 0
Candidate hypernym: cartesian coordinate system: a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system → 0
Candidate hypernym: handwear: clothing for the hands → 0
Candidate hypernym: man: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games → 0
Candidate hypernym: ghetto: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions → 0
Candidate hypernym: phytoplankton: photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae → 0
Candidate hypernym: mass unit: a unit of measurement for mass → 0
Candidate hypernym: topos: a traditional theme or motif or literary convention → 0
Candidate hypernym: candelabrum: branched candlestick; ornamental; has several lights → 0
Candidate hypernym: largess: a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously → 0