Term: infection: (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
Candidate hypernym: linguistic process: a process involved in human language → 1
Candidate hypernym: interleaf: a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of a book → 0
Candidate hypernym: pain: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder → 0
Candidate hypernym: oration: an instance of oratory → 0
Candidate hypernym: canary wine: a sweet white wine from the Canary Islands → 0
Candidate hypernym: gowen cypress: small sometimes shrubby tree native to California; often used as an ornamental; in some classification systems includes the pygmy cypress and the Santa Cruz cypress → 0
Candidate hypernym: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane: an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 → 0
Candidate hypernym: optic nerve: the cranial nerve that serves the retina → 0
Candidate hypernym: rumba: a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement → 0
Candidate hypernym: perception: a way of conceiving something → 0
Candidate hypernym: vegetation: an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart) → 0