Term: emergent evolution: the appearance of entirely new properties at certain critical stages in the course of evolution
Candidate hypernym: evolution: (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms → 1
Candidate hypernym: abrading stone: a primitive stone artifact (usually made of sandstone) used as an abrader → 0
Candidate hypernym: retrograde amnesia: loss of memory for events immediately preceding a trauma → 0
Candidate hypernym: walk: manner of walking → 0
Candidate hypernym: simplification: elimination of superfluous details → 0
Candidate hypernym: paradoxical sleep: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep → 0
Candidate hypernym: mythologization: the restatement of a message as a myth → 0
Candidate hypernym: leopard lily: lily of western United States having orange-red to crimson maroon-spotted flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: soft diet: a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disorders → 0
Candidate hypernym: wykehamist: a student enrolled in (or graduated from) Winchester College → 0
Candidate hypernym: paramount issue: an issue whose settlement is more important than anything else; and issue that must be settled before anything else can be settled → 0