Term: positive chemotaxis: movement toward a chemical stimulus
Candidate hypernym: chemotaxis: movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus → 1
Candidate hypernym: cereus: genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white → 0
Candidate hypernym: episome: DNA that is not incorporated into the genome but is replicated together with the genome (especially in bacterial cells) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bullet hole: a hole made by a bullet passing through it → 0
Candidate hypernym: bier: a stand to support a corpse or a coffin prior to burial → 0
Candidate hypernym: bigamy: the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred → 0
Candidate hypernym: temper: the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking → 0
Candidate hypernym: dotted gayfeather: herb with many stems bearing narrow slender wands of crowded rose-lavender flowers; central United States and Canada to Texas and northern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: ethnic cleansing: the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area → 0
Candidate hypernym: triceratops: huge ceratopsian dinosaur having three horns and the neck heavily armored with a very solid frill → 0
Candidate hypernym: forties: the decade from 1940 to 1949 → 0