chuối
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Definition
- Noun:
- Banana: A long, curved fruit with a yellow skin and soft, sweet, starchy flesh when ripe, growing in clusters on a tropical herbaceous plant of the genus Musa.
- Banana plant: The large tropical plant (genus Musa) that bears this fruit, characterized by large elongated leaves and a soft, tree-like pseudostem.
Usage Examples
- Noun (fruit):
- Tôi thích ăn một quả chuối mỗi sáng. (I like to eat a banana every morning.)
- Chuối ở đây rất ngọt. (The bananas here are very sweet.)
- Noun (plant):
- Vườn nhà họ trồng nhiều cây chuối. (Their garden has many banana plants.)
Advanced Usage
- "chuối chát": A green, unripe banana that is starchy and astringent, often used in cooking.
- Gỏi cá ăn kèm với chuối chát. (Fish salad is served with green banana.)
- "trượt vỏ chuối" (idiomatic): Literally "to slip on a banana peel"; figuratively, to fail an exam or a test unexpectedly.
- Nó lo lắng sẽ trượt vỏ chuối trong kỳ thi. (He is worried he will fail the exam.)
Variants and Related Words
- Buồng chuối (n): A whole stalk or cluster of bananas.
- Họ hái cả một buồng chuối. (They harvested an entire stalk of bananas.)
- Nải chuối (n): A hand of bananas; a smaller cluster, typically what is sold at a market.
- Mua một nải chuối về để chín. (Buy a hand of bananas to ripen.)
- Cây chuối (n): The banana plant or tree.
- Lá chuối thường được dùng để gói bánh. (Banana leaves are often used to wrap cakes.)
Synonyms
- Banana: The primary English equivalent for the fruit.
- Plantain: A cooking banana, often larger and starchier, sometimes referred to as "chuối lá" or "chuối hột" in specific contexts.
Related Idioms
- "Già như chuối chín cây": Literally "old like a ripe banana on the plant"; a respectful saying comparing an elderly person to a ripe banana, implying they have lived a full life and are venerable.
- Bà cụ giờ già như chuối chín cây. (The old lady is now venerable with age.)
- "Ăn muối còn hơn ăn chuối chát": Literally "eating salt is better than eating a green banana"; a proverb suggesting it is better to have a little of something good (salt, essential) than a lot of something unpleasant or useless (green banana).