Term: adaptation: (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)
Candidate hypernym: alteration: the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) → 1
Candidate hypernym: liner: a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule) → 0
Candidate hypernym: work in progress: a piece of work that is not yet finished → 0
Candidate hypernym: idealism: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that ideas are the only reality → 0
Candidate hypernym: saltbush: any of various shrubby plants of the genus Atriplex that thrive in dry alkaline soil → 0
Candidate hypernym: growth stock: stock of a corporation that has had faster than average gains in earnings and is expected to continue to → 0
Candidate hypernym: ubiquinone: any of several quinones found in living cells and that function as coenzymes that transfer electrons from one molecule to another in cell respiration → 0
Candidate hypernym: uniocular dichromat: a person who has normal vision in one eye and dichromacy in the other; very rare but very useful for experiments on color vision → 0
Candidate hypernym: dramatic production: the act of performing a drama → 0
Candidate hypernym: foul play: unfair or dishonest behavior (especially involving violence) → 0
Candidate hypernym: inti: the basic unit of money in Peru → 0