Term: acyclovir: an oral antiviral drug (trade name Zovirax) used to treat genital herpes; does not cure the disease but relieves the symptoms
Candidate hypernym: medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: coalface: the part of a coal seam that is being cut → 0
Candidate hypernym: living granite: highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: overestimate: an appraisal that is too high → 0
Candidate hypernym: columbo: any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington → 0
Candidate hypernym: grass widower: a man who is divorced from (or separated from) his wife → 0
Candidate hypernym: ding: a ringing sound → 0
Candidate hypernym: byssus: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface → 0
Candidate hypernym: satirist: a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm → 0
Candidate hypernym: punica: coextensive with the family Punicaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: common opossum: omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States; noted for feigning death when in danger; esteemed as food in some areas; considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America → 0