Term: functionalism: a psychology based on the assumption that all mental process are useful to an organism in adapting to the environment
Candidate hypernym: scientific theory: a theory that explains scientific observations → 1
Candidate hypernym: doubly transitive verb: a transitive verb that takes both a direct and an indirect object → 0
Candidate hypernym: vermifuge: a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms → 0
Candidate hypernym: product research: marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service → 0
Candidate hypernym: initial: the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) → 0
Candidate hypernym: heterokontophyta: algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths; terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications → 0
Candidate hypernym: life sentence: a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives → 0
Candidate hypernym: soap: a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats → 0
Candidate hypernym: prurience: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness → 0
Candidate hypernym: araliaceae: mostly tropical trees and shrubs and lianas: genera Panax and Hedera → 0
Candidate hypernym: lacerta: type genus of the Lacertidae → 0