Term: sourdine: a mute for a violin
Candidate hypernym: mute: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument → 1
Candidate hypernym: horse trader: a hard bargainer → 0
Candidate hypernym: photinia: genus of deciduous and evergreen east Asian trees and shrubs widely cultivated as ornamentals for their white flowers and red fruits; in some classifications includes genus Heteromeles → 0
Candidate hypernym: proto-indo european: a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages → 0
Candidate hypernym: tinker: a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts → 0
Candidate hypernym: hopefulness: full of hope → 0
Candidate hypernym: dead person: someone who is no longer alive → 0
Candidate hypernym: free world: anti-communist countries collectively → 0
Candidate hypernym: specificity: the quality of being specific to a particular organism → 0
Candidate hypernym: elephant: the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 → 0
Candidate hypernym: knockoff: an unauthorized copy or imitation → 0