Term: home guard: a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere
Candidate hypernym: guard: a military unit serving to protect some place or person → 1
Candidate hypernym: cormorant: large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus montezuma: one species: medium-sized evergreen tree of Puerto Rico or Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: lancelet: small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates → 0
Candidate hypernym: boxer: someone who fights with his fists for sport → 0
Candidate hypernym: squadron: a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms → 0
Candidate hypernym: chop: the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hygienist: a medical specialist in hygiene → 0
Candidate hypernym: pickup: a warrant to take someone into custody → 0
Candidate hypernym: ampersand: a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and) → 0
Candidate hypernym: machupo virus: the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever; carried by rats and mice → 0