Term: guard: the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
Candidate hypernym: person: a human being → 1
Candidate hypernym: applejack: distilled from hard cider → 0
Candidate hypernym: beak: horny projecting mouth of a bird → 0
Candidate hypernym: engorgement: eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation → 0
Candidate hypernym: casuistry: moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas → 0
Candidate hypernym: yard bird: a military recruit who is assigned menial tasks → 0
Candidate hypernym: decriminalization: legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal → 0
Candidate hypernym: perilla: small genus of Asiatic herbs → 0
Candidate hypernym: mastodon: extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times; differ from mammoths in the form of the molar teeth → 0
Candidate hypernym: gesture: the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals → 0
Candidate hypernym: sally: a venture off the beaten path → 0