Banana
[bə'nɑːnə] or [bə'nænə]
Definition
(noun.) elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh.
(noun.) any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits.
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Definition
(n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Checker: Sumner
Definition
n. a gigantic herbaceous plant remarkable for its nutritious fruit.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion. To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business, and self-inflicted duty. To see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise. To trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you.
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Examples
- I'll drop it as you break a banana from which you have removed the skin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Manila hemp, as it is called, is a product of our Philippine dependency, being obtained from a species of the banana plant which grows abundantly in those islands. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I could eat a banana now, said Pilar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It consisted in Indian corn, yams, potatoes, bananas, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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