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banana Definition


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banana
noun bananas
    1. A large perennial SE Asian plant, superficially resembling a tree, that is cultivated throughout the tropics as a staple food crop.
    2. The long curved fruit of this plant, which is often sold as an unblemished yellow fruit, but which is not fully ripe until it is flecked with brown spots.
Idiom: be bananas (go bananas)
    slang
    To be or become crazy.
Etymology: 16c: from the native name in Guinea.



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