Term: buffer zone: a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
Candidate hypernym: zone: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic → 1
Candidate hypernym: shell: the housing or outer covering of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: propenoic acid: an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins → 0
Candidate hypernym: montia: small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: wicket: cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket → 0
Candidate hypernym: final period: the final division into which the play of a game is divided → 0
Candidate hypernym: fibrocartilage: cartilage that is largely composed of fibers like those in ordinary connective tissue → 0
Candidate hypernym: rigor mortis: muscular stiffening that begins 2 to 4 hours after death and lasts for about 4 days → 0
Candidate hypernym: shaking: the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements → 0
Candidate hypernym: geophagy: eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior → 0
Candidate hypernym: aspergillosis: severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys → 0