Term: sterilization: the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
Candidate hypernym: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body → 1
Candidate hypernym: dodge: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery → 0
Candidate hypernym: thwack: a hard blow with a flat object → 0
Candidate hypernym: frock coat: a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back; worn in the 19th century → 0
Candidate hypernym: threadfin: mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays → 0
Candidate hypernym: coracle: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain → 0
Candidate hypernym: bondman: a male slave → 0
Candidate hypernym: syntax: studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences → 0
Candidate hypernym: agonist: a muscle that contracts while another relaxes → 0
Candidate hypernym: perennation: the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant) → 0
Candidate hypernym: obscenity: an offensive or indecent word or phrase → 0