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: an elongated usually tapering tropical fruit with soft pulpy flesh enclosed in a soft usually yellow rind
a bunch of bananas
slipped on a banana peel
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King Kong Inspired by a giant ape that climbs the Empire State Building, this unique cocktail combines whiskey, amaro, and banana liqueur for a kind of Banana Manhattan.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
Ripe banana is one of my go-to ingredients for adding sweetness more healthfully.
—Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The company now maintains an enormous online marketplace, where digital artists can share and download scans of props and other environmental elements: a banana, a knobkerrie, a cluster of sea thrift, Thai coral, a smattering of horse manure.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Between earthquakes popping up in unusual places, murder hornets making a brief debut a couple years ago (remember those?), and the price of a Trader Joe’s banana rising for the first time in decades, the world seems to be increasingly unpredictable.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
Their first show, infamously if not verifiably, was played to a single banana slug.
—Brad Sanders, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
This smoothie is made with bananas, wild blueberries, apple blueberry juice blend, white grape lemon juice blend, protein blend, and blue spirulina (a nutrient-dense superfood made from blue-green algae).
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
Fruit trees Plant subtropical fruit trees now: citrus, avocado, guava, banana, papaya (along the coast only), jaboticaba, mango, coffee, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
On the dessert menu: bananas foster or cherries jubilee (both $25).
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024
Ripe banana is one of my go-to ingredients for adding sweetness more healthfully.
—Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2024
The company now maintains an enormous online marketplace, where digital artists can share and download scans of props and other environmental elements: a banana, a knobkerrie, a cluster of sea thrift, Thai coral, a smattering of horse manure.
—Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Between earthquakes popping up in unusual places, murder hornets making a brief debut a couple years ago (remember those?), and the price of a Trader Joe’s banana rising for the first time in decades, the world seems to be increasingly unpredictable.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
Their first show, infamously if not verifiably, was played to a single banana slug.
—Brad Sanders, SPIN, 10 Apr. 2024
This smoothie is made with bananas, wild blueberries, apple blueberry juice blend, white grape lemon juice blend, protein blend, and blue spirulina (a nutrient-dense superfood made from blue-green algae).
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 5 Apr. 2024
Fruit trees Plant subtropical fruit trees now: citrus, avocado, guava, banana, papaya (along the coast only), jaboticaba, mango, coffee, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
On the dessert menu: bananas foster or cherries jubilee (both $25).
—Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Banana.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banana. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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banana
noun
ba·nana
bə-ˈnan-ə 
: a treelike tropical plant with large leaves and flower clusters that develop into a bunch of finger-shaped fruit which are usually yellow when ripe
also
: its fruit
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