Term: contractility: the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
Candidate hypernym: ability: the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment → 1
Candidate hypernym: puppetry: the art of making puppets and presenting puppet shows → 0
Candidate hypernym: old-age pensioner: an old person who receives an old-age pension → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus daphnia: water fleas → 0
Candidate hypernym: cultivated land: arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops → 0
Candidate hypernym: italian cypress: tall Eurasian cypress with thin grey bark and ascending branches → 0
Candidate hypernym: dirtiness: the state of being unsanitary → 0
Candidate hypernym: housewifery: the work of a housewife → 0
Candidate hypernym: etymology: the study of the sources and development of words → 0
Candidate hypernym: reverse split: a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity → 0
Candidate hypernym: howl: the long plaintive cry of a hound or a wolf → 0