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banana Noun
An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
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(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .
Synonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, Twinkie
Antonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)
Coordinate terms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconut
Derived terms
* banana ball
* banana bender
* banana boat
* banana bond
* banana hammock
* Bananaland
* banana shot
* banana paper
* banana peel
* banana pepper
* banana plug
* bananaquit
* banana republic
* bananas
* bananas Foster
* bananery
* banana skin
* banana split
* banoffee
* false banana
* pink banana
* scarlet banana
* second banana
* snow banana
* top banana
Adjective
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Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
* 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.
- Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
* 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.
- He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
* 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.
- [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.
See also
* abaca
* coconut
* dining leaf
* matoke
* oreo
* plantain
* sinamay
* waragi
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Hypernyms
* bunch
* hand
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