Term: dieback: a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
Candidate hypernym: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism → 1
Candidate hypernym: stegocephalia: in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia → 0
Candidate hypernym: farm boy: a boy who has grown up on a farm → 0
Candidate hypernym: use: a particular service → 0
Candidate hypernym: prince's-feather: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: flutter: abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block → 0
Candidate hypernym: diameter: the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference → 0
Candidate hypernym: signaling device: a device used to send signals → 0
Candidate hypernym: colonoscopy: visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation → 0
Candidate hypernym: atlantic herring: important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic → 0
Candidate hypernym: cape gooseberry: annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits → 0