banana
An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
Example
“Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.”
Other meanings
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.
A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.
A kind of
- herb
Kinds of banana
- dwarf banana
- edible banana
Word history
From Arabic "بَنَان" (fingertip, banana).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “banana” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.