Term: lamarckism: a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring
Candidate hypernym: theory of evolution: (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals → 1
Candidate hypernym: stropharia hornemannii: a gilled fungus with a large slimy purple or olive cap; gills become purple with age; the stalk is long and richly decorated with pieces of the white sheath that extends up to a ring → 0
Candidate hypernym: activation energy: the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur → 0
Candidate hypernym: xenotime: a brown-to-yellow mineral that is a phosphate of yttrium in crystalline form → 0
Candidate hypernym: orthopedist: a specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children) → 0
Candidate hypernym: cat scratch disease: a disease thought to be transmitted to humans by a scratch from a cat → 0
Candidate hypernym: fusel oil: a mixture of amyl alcohols and propanol and butanol formed from distillation of fermented liquors → 0
Candidate hypernym: burning bush: (Old Testament) the bush that burned without being consumed and from which God spoke to Moses → 0
Candidate hypernym: row: an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line → 0
Candidate hypernym: sound: the subjective sensation of hearing something → 0
Candidate hypernym: frisian: a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English → 0