banana : Idioms & Phrases

• noun large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa
  Ensete ventricosum; Abyssinian banana; Musa ensete.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana.

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• noun a ship designed to transport bananas
  

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• noun moist bread containing banana pulp
  

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• noun treelike tropical Asian herbs
  family Musaceae; Musaceae.
  

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• noun a liquid ester derived from amyl alcohol; has the odor of bananas
  

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• noun cultivated for fruit
  Passiflora mollissima.
  

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• noun the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
  banana peel.
  
  • he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell

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• noun any of several honeycreepers
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.

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• noun a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)
  

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• noun the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)
  banana peel.
  
  • he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell

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• noun a banana split lengthwise and topped with scoops of ice cream and sauces and nuts and whipped cream
  

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• noun 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
  banana.
  

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• noun low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
  Musa acuminata.
  

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• noun widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit
  Musa paradisiaca sapientum.
  

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• noun large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa
  Ensete ventricosum; Abyssinian banana; Musa ensete.
  

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• noun Asiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan
  Musa basjoo.
  

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• noun a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian
  straight man.
  
• noun someone who serves in a subordinate capacity or plays a secondary role
  second fiddle.
  

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• noun the leading comedian in a burlesque show
  
• noun the most important person in a group or undertaking
  bigwig; kingpin.
  

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