banana

Four different types of bananas. The larger yellow bananas on the far right are commercially dominant Cavendish bananas.

Meanings

Noun

  • An elongated curved tropical fruit of the banana plant that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
  • The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  • A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
  • A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a white person (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside).
  • A banana equivalent dose.
  • A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
  • The penis.
  • A banana kick.

Adjective

  • Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

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Broader meaning words

  • bunch
  • hand
  • Appendix:English collective nouns

Origin

  • From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

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