Term: retardant: any agent that retards or delays or hinders
Candidate hypernym: causal agent: any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results → 1
Candidate hypernym: zhou: the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism → 0
Candidate hypernym: measure: a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance → 0
Candidate hypernym: gobio: true gudgeons → 0
Candidate hypernym: heft: the property of being large in mass → 0
Candidate hypernym: soft-shoe: tap dancing wearing shoes that have soft soles → 0
Candidate hypernym: toxicology: the branch of pharmacology that deals with the nature and effects and treatments of poisons → 0
Candidate hypernym: scotch kiss: butterscotch candy kiss → 0
Candidate hypernym: hog plum: tropical American tree having edible yellow fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: solo man: early man of late Pleistocene; skull resembles that of Neanderthal man but with smaller cranial capacity; found in Java → 0
Candidate hypernym: musk thistle: Eurasian perennial naturalized in eastern North America having very spiny white cottony foliage and nodding musky crimson flower heads; valuable source of nectar → 0