Term: melanocyte: a cell in the basal layer of the epidermis that produces melanin under the control of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone
Candidate hypernym: skin cell: any of the cells making up the skin → 1
Candidate hypernym: adverb: the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses → 0
Candidate hypernym: pulasan: East Indian fruit tree bearing fruit similar to but sweeter than that of the rambutan → 0
Candidate hypernym: critical mass: the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction → 0
Candidate hypernym: garambulla: small berrylike fruit → 0
Candidate hypernym: colophon: a publisher's emblem printed in a book (usually on the title page) → 0
Candidate hypernym: or circuit: a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire → 0
Candidate hypernym: member: anything that belongs to a set or class → 0
Candidate hypernym: water chestnut: a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits → 0
Candidate hypernym: choice: the act of choosing or selecting → 0
Candidate hypernym: jack pine: slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark → 0