Term: sorbent: a material that sorbs another substance; i.e. that has the capacity or tendency to take it up by either absorption or adsorption
Candidate hypernym: substance: the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists → 1
Candidate hypernym: football coach: a coach of football players → 0
Candidate hypernym: bar fly: a drinker who frequents bars → 0
Candidate hypernym: anthrax: a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people → 0
Candidate hypernym: sudanese monetary unit: monetary unit in the Sudan → 0
Candidate hypernym: shoe industry: an industry that manufactures and sells shoes → 0
Candidate hypernym: noah's flood: (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings → 0
Candidate hypernym: totem: a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object → 0
Candidate hypernym: modillion: (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice → 0
Candidate hypernym: pelobatidae: the amphibian family of spadefoot toads → 0
Candidate hypernym: matrilineage: line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family → 0