banana

IPA: bʌnˈænʌ

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.

Examples of "banana" in Sentences

Gives a whole new meaning to the name "banana spider".
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit.
No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.
If a banana is a fruit, then what do you define say, an orange, and apple, or a grape as?
The term banana republic is often used in a disparaging sense; it suggests an unstable government.
They contain vitamins and tasty sugars, and the word banana comes from an Arab-language word, banan, which means “finger.”
The term banana is a racial epithet typically used in a derogatory fashion to imply that someone is “yellow (Asian/American) on the outside, white on the inside;” synonyms include Twinkie
Lovingly referred to as "Granny," Zhelesnik uses innovative strategies to teach the preschoolers at the Sundance School in New Jersey where she has worked for the last 15 years, such as baking banana bread to talk about the letter "N," as it appears twice in the word banana.