Term: pepsin: an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones
Candidate hypernym: enzyme: any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions → 1
Candidate hypernym: attachment: the act of attaching or affixing something → 0
Candidate hypernym: ratbite fever: either of two infectious diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of a rat or mouse; characterized by fever and headache and nausea and skin eruptions → 0
Candidate hypernym: cargo cult: a religious cult that anticipates a time of joy, serenity, and justice when salvation comes → 0
Candidate hypernym: glory pea: any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Clianthus having compound leaves and pea-like red flowers in drooping racemes → 0
Candidate hypernym: cotton candy: a candy made by spinning sugar that has been boiled to a high temperature → 0
Candidate hypernym: dog show: a competitive exhibition of dogs → 0
Candidate hypernym: pipile: genus of large crested guans (the piping guans) → 0
Candidate hypernym: fermi-dirac statistics: (physics) law obeyed by a systems of particles whose wave function changes when two particles are interchanged (the Pauli exclusion principle applies) → 0
Candidate hypernym: mail train: a train that carries mail → 0
Candidate hypernym: hernia: rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes → 0