Term: refractory period: (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response
Candidate hypernym: biological time: the time of various biological processes → 1
Candidate hypernym: implosion: a sudden inward collapse → 0
Candidate hypernym: squirting cucumber: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched → 0
Candidate hypernym: mastigoproctus: giant whip scorpions → 0
Candidate hypernym: ratline: (nautical) a small horizontal rope between the shrouds of a sailing ship; they form a ladder for climbing aloft → 0
Candidate hypernym: boxfish: any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates → 0
Candidate hypernym: halimodendron: one species: salt tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: range: the limits within which something can be effective → 0
Candidate hypernym: verity: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth → 0
Candidate hypernym: sick benefit: money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work → 0
Candidate hypernym: architecture: an architectural product or work → 0