Term: periodontal disease: a disease that attacks the gum and bone and around the teeth
Candidate hypernym: disease: an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning → 1
Candidate hypernym: mescal bean: shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans → 0
Candidate hypernym: chine: backbone of an animal → 0
Candidate hypernym: covey: a small flock of grouse or partridge → 0
Candidate hypernym: emetic: a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting → 0
Candidate hypernym: vanadium: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite → 0
Candidate hypernym: lobotes: type genus of the Lobotidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: myricaria: small genus of deciduous shrubs or subshrubs of southern Europe to Siberia and China; tolerant of chalky soil → 0
Candidate hypernym: stemless carline thistle: stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath; of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe → 0
Candidate hypernym: interventricular foramen: the small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere → 0
Candidate hypernym: loser: a contestant who loses the contest → 0