Term: blastula: early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs
Candidate hypernym: embryo: an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life → 1
Candidate hypernym: saturated fatty acid: a fatty acid whose carbon chain cannot absorb any more hydrogen atoms; found chiefly in animal fats → 0
Candidate hypernym: revetment: a barrier against explosives → 0
Candidate hypernym: overpressure: a transient air pressure greater than the surrounding atmospheric pressure → 0
Candidate hypernym: congress of industrial organizations: a federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955 → 0
Candidate hypernym: takin: large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area → 0
Candidate hypernym: security consultant: an adviser about alarm systems to prevent burglaries → 0
Candidate hypernym: module: a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components → 0
Candidate hypernym: grass: narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay → 0
Candidate hypernym: schutzstaffel: special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps → 0
Candidate hypernym: decalcomania: the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface → 0