Term: banana republic: a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
Candidate hypernym: country: the territory occupied by a nation → 1
Candidate hypernym: areola: small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing → 0
Candidate hypernym: hand: a unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses → 0
Candidate hypernym: rheiformes: a ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus: recent and extinct rheas → 0
Candidate hypernym: white campion: bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis → 0
Candidate hypernym: last straw: the final irritation that stretches your patience beyond the limit → 0
Candidate hypernym: drunkard: a chronic drinker → 0
Candidate hypernym: scar tissue: the connective tissue that forms a scar; consists of fibroblasts in new scars and collagen fibers in old scars → 0
Candidate hypernym: lamplighter: (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights → 0
Candidate hypernym: skillet fish: clingfish with typical skillet shape → 0
Candidate hypernym: vicariate: the religious institution under the authority of a vicar → 0