banana

/bə'nɑ:nə/
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banana

A child peels a ripe banana for a snack.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A long curved fruit with a yellow skin and soft, sweet, white flesh inside: This is the most common meaning, referring to the edible fruit.
    • A tropical plant that produces this fruit: This refers to the large herbaceous plant (genus Musa) with large leaves, often incorrectly called a tree.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun (Fruit):
    • I ate a banana for breakfast.
    • The recipe calls for two ripe bananas.
  • Noun (Plant):
    • A banana plant can grow very tall.
    • The wind damaged the banana crop.
Advanced Usage
  • "To go bananas" (idiom): to become very excited, angry, or crazy.
    • The crowd went bananas when the band came on stage.
  • "Top banana" (idiom, informal): the most important person in a group or organization; the leader.
    • He's the top banana in this company.
Variants and Related Words
  • Banana skin (noun, British English): the peel of a banana; also used metaphorically for an unexpected problem or embarrassment.
    • He slipped on a banana skin. (literal)
    • The new policy turned out to be a political banana skin. (figurative)
  • Banana republic (noun): a small country, especially in Central America, that is politically unstable and dependent on a single crop (like bananas) or foreign capital.
    • The novel is set in a corrupt banana republic.
Synonyms
  • Plantain (noun): a type of banana that is larger, starchier, and usually cooked before eating.
  • No direct single-word synonym for the common yellow dessert banana.
Related Phrases
  • A bunch of bananas: a group of bananas growing together, which is the correct term for the entire cluster from a single plant.
    • We bought a bunch of bananas at the market.
  • A hand of bananas: a subsection of a bunch, typically a cluster of 10-20 bananas.
    • The recipe said to use one hand of bananas.
Related Idioms
  • Second banana (idiom, informal): a person who plays a secondary or supporting role to the main person.
    • He was tired of being the second banana and wanted his own show.
banana

A child peels a ripe banana for a snack.

Noun
  1. elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
  2. any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits

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