Term: cynosure: something that provides guidance (as Polaris guides mariners)
Candidate hypernym: guidance: something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action → 1
Candidate hypernym: band: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color → 0
Candidate hypernym: debaser: a person who lowers the quality or character or value (as by adding cheaper metal to coins) → 0
Candidate hypernym: set: (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way → 0
Candidate hypernym: wood fern: any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris → 0
Candidate hypernym: aepyornidae: coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes → 0
Candidate hypernym: nest: a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young → 0
Candidate hypernym: fret: an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hybrid: a composite of mixed origin → 0
Candidate hypernym: phonograph record: sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove → 0
Candidate hypernym: misogamy: hatred of marriage → 0