banana

IPA: bʌnˈænʌ

noun

  • 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.
  • (slang) The penis.
  • (sports) A banana kick.
  • (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
  • (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
  • (informal, humorous, derogatory, often attributively) One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.

adjective

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