Term: celluloid: highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics
Candidate hypernym: thermoplastic: a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled → 1
Candidate hypernym: pocket: an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck → 0
Candidate hypernym: staging area: an area where troops and equipment in transit are assembled before a military operation → 0
Candidate hypernym: pterygoid muscle: muscle descending from the sphenoid bone to the lower jaw → 0
Candidate hypernym: perineurium: the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of nerve fibers → 0
Candidate hypernym: nonconformist: someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct → 0
Candidate hypernym: swimming trunks: swimsuit worn by men while swimming → 0
Candidate hypernym: muscle: one of the contractile organs of the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: stachys: large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia → 0
Candidate hypernym: thatch: a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) → 0
Candidate hypernym: thorium: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands → 0