Banana
Word: bananaBanana Meanings:
- A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa
- An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. (Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
- 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.
- (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to White authority. Synonym: Twinkie
- (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): race traitor
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): jook-sing
- (Asian assimilated into Western culture): egg, coconut, Oreo
- (fruit): finger, hand
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /bəˈna.nə/
- banana (fruit) Synonym: plàtan
- “banana” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key):
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key):
- third-person singular past historic of bananer (to make a mistake)
- banana (fruit) Synonym: plátano
- inflection of banani: indefinite accusative
- crann bananaí (“banana-tree”)
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “banana”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
- Lower Sorbian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /bɐ̃ˈnɐ̃.nɐ/
- banana (fruit) As bananas são ricas em potássio ― Bananas are high in potassium
- banana (plant) Synonym: (more common) bananeira
- (Brazil, informal) bras d'honneur (obscene gesture) Synonym: (Portugal) manguito
- (derogatory, slang) wimp (a weak or unconfident person) Aquele rapaz é um banana! ― That guy is a wimp!
- definite singular nominative/accusative of banană (banana (fruit))
- (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay) banana (fruit) Synonyms: plátano, guineo, cambur, banano
- banana may also be used in Spain, to differentiate from plátano (“plantain”); otherwise, plátano refers to either.
- “banana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /baˈnaːna/, /baˈnana/