Term: deficiency disease: any disease caused by a lack of an essential nutrient (as a vitamin or mineral)
Candidate hypernym: disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning → 1
Candidate hypernym: root cellar: an excavation where root vegetables are stored → 0
Candidate hypernym: in-joke: a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people → 0
Candidate hypernym: alpine coltsfoot: rhizomatous herb with purple-red flowers suitable for groundcover; sometimes placed in genus Tussilago → 0
Candidate hypernym: paleoecology: the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology → 0
Candidate hypernym: kaposi's sarcoma: a sarcoma that starts with purplish spots on the feet and legs and spreads from the skin to lymph nodes and internal organs; a common manifestation of AIDS → 0
Candidate hypernym: conn's syndrome: disturbances in saltwater balance and symptoms of weakness and muscular cramps and twitching and convulsions and sometimes paralysis; usually caused by a benign tumor of the cortex of the adrenal gland that leads to excess secretion of aldosterone → 0
Candidate hypernym: repair: a formal way of referring to the condition of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: bombazine: a twilled fabric used for dresses; the warp is silk and the weft is worsted → 0
Candidate hypernym: sardinian: the Italian dialect spoken in Sardinia; sometimes considered a separate language with many loan words from Spanish → 0
Candidate hypernym: sotho: a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages → 0