Term: opsonin: an antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
Candidate hypernym: antibody: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response → 1
Candidate hypernym: chon: 100 chon equal 1 won in North Korea → 0
Candidate hypernym: brahmi: a script (probably adapted from the Aramaic about the 7th century BC) from which later Indian scripts developed → 0
Candidate hypernym: whiffer: a batter who strikes out by swinging at and missing the third strike → 0
Candidate hypernym: daybook: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred → 0
Candidate hypernym: apophysis: (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers → 0
Candidate hypernym: ruck: a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things → 0
Candidate hypernym: service: employment in or work for another → 0
Candidate hypernym: scatter rug: a small rug; several can be used in a room → 0
Candidate hypernym: minute: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree → 0
Candidate hypernym: ciliata: class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle → 0