Term: ply: (usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
Candidate hypernym: layer: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance → 1
Candidate hypernym: brassia: genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids → 0
Candidate hypernym: material: things needed for doing or making something → 0
Candidate hypernym: patent ductus arteriosus: a ductus arteriosus that failed to close at birth; may require surgical correction → 0
Candidate hypernym: sipuncula: peanut worms → 0
Candidate hypernym: direction finder: radio; determines the direction of incoming radio waves → 0
Candidate hypernym: jolly: a happy party → 0
Candidate hypernym: theory of dissociation: (chemistry) theory that describes aqueous solutions in terms of acids (which dissociate to give hydrogen ions) and bases (which dissociate to give hydroxyl ions); the product of an acid and a base is a salt and water → 0
Candidate hypernym: hemachatus: ringhals → 0
Candidate hypernym: house mouse: brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide → 0
Candidate hypernym: heaves: a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks → 0