Banana vs Lemon - What's the difference?
banana | lemon |
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.
(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 .
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
* 2001 , Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles , page 155, ISBN 0738847917.
* 2002 , Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor , page 53, ISBN 1403371490.
* 2006 , Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer , page 247, ISBN 0977668800.
A yellowish citrus fruit.
A semitropical evergreen tree, , that bears such fruits.
A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
(slang) A defective or inadequate item.
Smart; cheeky, vocal.
* 2009 , (Caitlin Moran), ‘Why I love paying tax’, The Times , 12 Oct 2009:
favour, favor.
(fandom) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex (named after the erotic anime series (Cream Lemon) ).
Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
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As a proper noun lemon is
.banana
English
(wikipedia banana)Noun
Synonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, TwinkieAntonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)Coordinate terms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconutDerived 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 bananaAdjective
(-)- Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
- He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
- [...]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 *Hypernyms
* bunch * hand * ----lemon
English
(Citrus limon)Noun
(en noun)- He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon .
- Obviously Emin is not the first public figure to get lemon over tax increases.
- A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon , I could get it for half that.
