Term: grass roots: the essential foundation or source
Candidate hypernym: foundation: the basis on which something is grounded → 1
Candidate hypernym: gossip columnist: a journalist who writes a column of gossip about celebrities → 0
Candidate hypernym: modulation: the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hardening: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization → 0
Candidate hypernym: lycopsida: club mosses and related forms: includes Lycopodiales; Isoetales; Selaginellales; and extinct Lepidodendrales; sometimes considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta → 0
Candidate hypernym: cubitus: the arm from the elbow to the fingertips → 0
Candidate hypernym: tenebrionidae: a family of arthropods including darkling beetles and mealworms → 0
Candidate hypernym: myopia: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred → 0
Candidate hypernym: oversensitiveness: sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset → 0
Candidate hypernym: inoculant: a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease → 0
Candidate hypernym: monohydrate: a hydrate that contains one molecule of water per molecule of the compound → 0