Term: soil conservation: protection of soil against erosion or deterioration
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: glycogen: one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body → 0
Candidate hypernym: mandaean: a member of a small Gnostic sect that originated in Jordan and survives in Iraq and who believes that John the Baptist was the Messiah → 0
Candidate hypernym: dark adaptation: the process of adjusting the eyes to low levels of illumination; cones adapt first; rods continue to adapt for up to four hours → 0
Candidate hypernym: nondepository financial institution: a financial institution that funds their investment activities from the sale of securities or insurance → 0
Candidate hypernym: sewage: waste matter carried away in sewers or drains → 0
Candidate hypernym: box beam: a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section → 0
Candidate hypernym: rhyolite: very acid volcanic rock → 0
Candidate hypernym: adapid: extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins → 0
Candidate hypernym: holothuridae: a family of Holothuroidea → 0
Candidate hypernym: home rule: self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government → 0