Term: airfoil: a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
Candidate hypernym: device: an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose → 1
Candidate hypernym: alchemy: a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times → 0
Candidate hypernym: rubber eraser: an eraser made of rubber (or of a synthetic material with properties similar to rubber); commonly mounted at one end of a pencil → 0
Candidate hypernym: hoary pea: a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods → 0
Candidate hypernym: petal: part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored → 0
Candidate hypernym: ciliata: class of protozoa having cilia or hairlike appendages on part or all of the surface during some part of the life cycle → 0
Candidate hypernym: adaptation: the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions) → 0
Candidate hypernym: spike heel: a very high narrow heel on women's shoes → 0
Candidate hypernym: milliradian: a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian → 0
Candidate hypernym: picturing: visual imagery → 0
Candidate hypernym: rest mass: (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body → 0