Term: necrobiosis: (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
Candidate hypernym: death: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: rut: a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) → 0
Candidate hypernym: self: your consciousness of your own identity → 0
Candidate hypernym: gunflint: the piece of flint that provides the igniting spark in a flintlock weapon → 0
Candidate hypernym: leafnose bat: bat having a leaflike flap at the end of the nose; especially of the families Phyllostomatidae and Rhinolophidae and Hipposideridae → 0
Candidate hypernym: aspidelaps: African coral snakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: horseweed: common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron → 0
Candidate hypernym: pomatomus: type genus of the Pomatomidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: quibble: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections → 0
Candidate hypernym: curtain: any barrier to communication or vision → 0
Candidate hypernym: sandwort: loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe → 0