banana

Plural

bananas

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.

2. 2.An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

   • Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.
   • I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.

3. 3.The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.

4. 4.A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

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

   • Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
   • He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

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