Term: abscission: shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
Candidate hypernym: shedding: the process whereby something is shed → 1
Candidate hypernym: pinfold: a pen where stray animals are confined → 0
Candidate hypernym: holography: the branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image → 0
Candidate hypernym: viscount: a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron → 0
Candidate hypernym: irreversibility: the quality of being irreversible (once done it cannot be changed) → 0
Candidate hypernym: truthfulness: the quality of being truthful → 0
Candidate hypernym: musk clover: low annual European herb naturalized in America; similar to alfilaria → 0
Candidate hypernym: leap year: in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400 → 0
Candidate hypernym: brace: elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bad guy: any person who is not on your side → 0
Candidate hypernym: walking delegate: a union representative who visits workers at their jobs to see whether agreements are observed → 0