Term: glutamic acid: an amino acid occurring in proteins; important in the nitrogen metabolism of plants; used in monosodium glutamate to enhance the flavor of meats
Candidate hypernym: amino acid: organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group → 1
Candidate hypernym: pigweed: leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China → 0
Candidate hypernym: strawberry tomato: stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: destiny: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman) → 0
Candidate hypernym: acidophil: an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment → 0
Candidate hypernym: moderate gale: wind moving 32-38 knots; 7 on the Beaufort scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: base pair: one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA molecule that has two strands; the base pairs are adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine in DNA and adenine with uracil and guanine with cytosine in RNA → 0
Candidate hypernym: gasoline tax: a tax on every gallon of gasoline sold → 0
Candidate hypernym: cranberry juice: the juice of cranberries (always diluted and sweetened) → 0
Candidate hypernym: racing start: the start of a race → 0
Candidate hypernym: hyssopus: Eurasian genus of perennial herbs or subshrubs → 0