Term: opacification: the process of becoming cloudy or opaque
Candidate hypernym: natural process: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) → 1
Candidate hypernym: sheep-tick: parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete → 0
Candidate hypernym: metier: an occupation for which you are especially well suited → 0
Candidate hypernym: tie: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track → 0
Candidate hypernym: hogback: a narrow ridge of hills → 0
Candidate hypernym: sleeping sickness: an encephalitis that was epidemic between 1915 and 1926; symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness → 0
Candidate hypernym: exudation: the process of exuding; the slow escape of liquids from blood vessels through pores or breaks in the cell membranes → 0
Candidate hypernym: diplodocus: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: jerk: a dull stupid fatuous person → 0
Candidate hypernym: sausage curl: a fat sausage-shaped curl → 0
Candidate hypernym: scotch pine: medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark → 0