Term: chlorine: a common nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; best known as a heavy yellow irritating toxic gas; used to purify water and as a bleaching agent and disinfectant; occurs naturally only as a salt (as in sea water)
Candidate hypernym: halogen: any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions → 1
Candidate hypernym: clinic: a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists → 0
Candidate hypernym: validity: the quality of having legal force or effectiveness → 0
Candidate hypernym: pitcher: (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer → 0
Candidate hypernym: people's party: a former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads → 0
Candidate hypernym: distributor housing: the housing that supports the distributor cam → 0
Candidate hypernym: hedge maple: shrubby Eurasian maple often used as a hedge → 0
Candidate hypernym: needy: needy people collectively → 0
Candidate hypernym: boa: any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: sodium salicylate: a crystalline salt used as an analgesic and antipyretic → 0
Candidate hypernym: thujopsis: one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja → 0