Term: receding: a slow or gradual disappearance
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: cantaloupe: a variety of muskmelon vine having fruit with a tan rind and orange flesh
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: mumblety-peg: a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: zona pellucida: thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: linear unit: a unit of measurement of length
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: xiphiidae: comprising the common swordfishes
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: petty officer: a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: fun: verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: carful: the quantity that a car will hold
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: crowd: an informal body of friends
Broader: event: something that happens at a given place and time | Unrelated: acanthocephalan: any of various worms living parasitically in intestines of vertebrates having a retractile proboscis covered with many hooked spines