Term: apoptosis: a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival
Candidate hypernym: physical entity: an entity that has physical existence → 1
Candidate hypernym: musculus abductor pollicis: the abductor muscle of the thumb → 0
Candidate hypernym: manner of speaking: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally → 0
Candidate hypernym: surgical knife: a very sharp knife used in surgery → 0
Candidate hypernym: self-contradiction: contradicting yourself → 0
Candidate hypernym: abnormality: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality → 0
Candidate hypernym: kaffir boom: small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coral-red seeds; yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles → 0
Candidate hypernym: flag smut fungus: a smut fungus causing a smut in cereals and other grasses that chiefly affects leaves and stems and is characterized chains of sori within the plant tissue that later rupture releasing black masses of spores → 0
Candidate hypernym: intoxication: excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety → 0
Candidate hypernym: american bugbane: bugbane of the eastern United States having erect racemes of white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: porte-cochere: a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard → 0