Term: elasticity: the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
Candidate hypernym: physical property: any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions → 1
Candidate hypernym: purist: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) → 0
Candidate hypernym: long-horned grasshopper: grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male → 0
Candidate hypernym: undercut: a cut made underneath to remove material → 0
Candidate hypernym: houselights: lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium → 0
Candidate hypernym: retirement: withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation → 0
Candidate hypernym: resistance: the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) → 0
Candidate hypernym: clethraceae: coextensive with the genus Clethra → 0
Candidate hypernym: sheetrock: a kind of plasterboard → 0
Candidate hypernym: nephralgia: pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins) → 0
Candidate hypernym: lorgnette: eyeglasses that are held to the eyes with a long handle → 0