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.
Bunchnoun
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
Bunchnoun
(cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
Bunchnoun
An informal body of friends.
Bunchnoun
A considerable amount.
Bunchnoun
(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
Bunchnoun
(forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
Bunchnoun
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
Bunchnoun
(textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
Bunchnoun
An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.
Bunchnoun
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Bunchverb
(transitive) To gather into a bunch.
Bunchverb
(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
Bunchverb
(intransitive) To form a bunch.
Bunchverb
(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
Bunchverb
(intransitive) To protrude or swell
Bunchnoun
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Bunchnoun
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
Bunchnoun
A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
Bunchverb
To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunchverb
To form into a bunch or bunches.
Bunchnoun
a grouping of a number of similar things;
Bunchnoun
an informal body of friends;
Bunchnoun
any collection in its entirety;
Bunchverb
form into a bunch;
Bunchverb
gather or cause to gather into a cluster;