Term: department of defense laboratory system: a defense laboratory that provides essential services in fundamental science for national security and environmental protection and provides technologies that contribute to industrial competitiveness
Candidate hypernym: agency: an administrative unit of government → 1
Candidate hypernym: malnutrition: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods → 0
Candidate hypernym: life cycle: the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced → 0
Candidate hypernym: jerboa kangaroo: brush-tailed rat kangaroo → 0
Candidate hypernym: trunk hose: puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose → 0
Candidate hypernym: extraversion: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self → 0
Candidate hypernym: petit mal epilepsy: epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities) → 0
Candidate hypernym: anastylosis: the archeological reassembly of ruined monuments from fallen or decayed fragments (incorporating new materials when necessary) → 0
Candidate hypernym: phone message: a message transmitted by telephone → 0
Candidate hypernym: weapon of mass destruction: a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) → 0
Candidate hypernym: payena: genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha → 0