Term: defoliation: the loss of foliage
Candidate hypernym: organic process: a process occurring in living organisms → 1
Candidate hypernym: phrase: a short musical passage → 0
Candidate hypernym: agnomen: an additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great') → 0
Candidate hypernym: schoolmaster: food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters → 0
Candidate hypernym: junker: member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for militarism → 0
Candidate hypernym: treehopper: small leaping insect that sucks juices of branches and twigs → 0
Candidate hypernym: whistling swan: North American subspecies of tundra swan having a soft whistling note → 0
Candidate hypernym: mercilessness: inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving → 0
Candidate hypernym: decision: the act of making up your mind about something → 0
Candidate hypernym: rosemary: widely cultivated for its fragrant grey-green leaves used in cooking and in perfumery → 0
Candidate hypernym: meliphagidae: honey eaters → 0