Term: laundering: washing clothes and bed linens
Candidate hypernym: wash: the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water) → 1
Candidate hypernym: mail-order buying: buying goods to be shipped through the mail → 0
Candidate hypernym: peristalsis: the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along → 0
Candidate hypernym: intelligence: the operation of gathering information about an enemy → 0
Candidate hypernym: xylem: the woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue, consisting primarily of tracheids and vessels → 0
Candidate hypernym: purple fringeless orchid: orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions → 0
Candidate hypernym: santa ana: a strong hot dry wind that blows in winter from the deserts of southern California toward the Pacific Coast → 0
Candidate hypernym: mediterranean fruit fly: small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: vinification: the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine → 0
Candidate hypernym: handcart: wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels → 0
Candidate hypernym: pearlfish: found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds → 0