Term: formation: natural process that causes something to form
Candidate hypernym: natural process: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) → 1
Candidate hypernym: welwitschia: curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old → 0
Candidate hypernym: dig: the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow → 0
Candidate hypernym: supply officer: a commissioned officer responsible for logistics → 0
Candidate hypernym: overlay: a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: katsura tree: rapidly growing deciduous tree of low mountainsides of China and Japan; grown as an ornamental for its dark blue-green candy-scented foliage that becomes yellow to scarlet in autumn → 0
Candidate hypernym: messmate: (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dairyman: the owner or manager of a dairy → 0
Candidate hypernym: kitty litter: granulated clay; placed in a container where it absorbs the waste products of a cat or dog → 0
Candidate hypernym: cutaneous anthrax: a form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal → 0
Candidate hypernym: gondola: long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice → 0