Term: bacteria: (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants
Candidate hypernym: organism: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently → 1
Candidate hypernym: executor: a person appointed by a testator to carry out the terms of the will → 0
Candidate hypernym: submitter: someone who yields to the will of another person or force → 0
Candidate hypernym: angular acceleration: (physics) the rate of change of the angular velocity of a rotating body → 0
Candidate hypernym: period: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations → 0
Candidate hypernym: central bank: a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government → 0
Candidate hypernym: brown cup: a variety of sclerotinia → 0
Candidate hypernym: telegraphese: language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams → 0
Candidate hypernym: erb's palsy: paralysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth) → 0
Candidate hypernym: tubular cavity: a cavity having the shape of a tube → 0
Candidate hypernym: gasworks: the workplace where coal gas is manufactured → 0