Banana vs. Apple

Banananoun

An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

Banananoun

Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.

Banananoun

The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

Banananoun

(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

Banananoun

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 assimilated Hispanic or Black or Black person who is "black outside" and "white inside".

Banananoun

(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.

Banananoun

(colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

Bananaadjective

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

Banananoun

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

Banananoun

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

Banananoun

elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called , distinguishing them from dessert bananas.

Applenoun

A common, round fruit produced by the tree Malus domestica, cultivated in temperate climates.

Applenoun

Any of various tree-borne fruits or vegetables especially considered as resembling an apple; also (with qualifying words) used to form the names of other specific fruits such as custard apple, rose apple, thorn apple etc.

Applenoun

The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, eaten by Adam and Eve according to post-Biblical Christian tradition; the forbidden fruit.

Applenoun

A tree of the genus Malus, especially one cultivated for its edible fruit; the apple tree.

Applenoun

The wood of the apple tree.

Applenoun

Short for apples and pears, slang for stairs.

Applenoun

The ball in baseball.

Applenoun

(informal) When smiling, the round, fleshy part of the cheeks between the eyes and the corners of the mouth.

Applenoun

A Native American or red-skinned person who acts and/or thinks like a white (Caucasian) person.

Applenoun

(ice hockey slang) An assist.

Applenoun

The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.

Applenoun

Any tree genus Pyrus which has the stalk sunken into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.

Applenoun

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

Applenoun

Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.

Appleverb

To grow like an apple; to bear apples.

Applenoun

fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Applenoun

native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

Applenoun

the round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.

Applenoun

used in names of unrelated fruits or other plant growths that resemble apples in some way, e.g. custard apple, oak apple.

Applenoun

the tree bearing apples, with hard pale timber that is used in carpentry and to smoke food.

Apple

An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (Malus domestica). Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus.