Crossword clues for banana
banana
- Fruit type
- Chimp's treat
- Cereal topping
- Belafonte song fruit
- Type of cream pie
- Split item
- Monkeys go ape for it
- Monkey's fruit
- High potassium fruit
- Fruit-salad staple
- Fruit in a split
- Fruit in a bunch
- Fruit for a split
- Familiar daiquiri flavor
- Bicycle-seat style
- Bicycle seat style
- "Seat," "oil" or "split" start
- __ split
- Yellow, curved tropical fruit
- Yellow-skin fruit
- Word with seat or split
- Word with republic or split
- Word before bread or boat
- Wild bunch member?
- Top fruit?
- Top fruit
- Supporting role
- Split requirement
- Split need
- Split foundation
- Simian snack
- Potassium-rich food
- Potassium provider
- Popular pancake topping
- Plantain's cousin
- Phallic fruit
- Orange alternative
- One of the bunch?
- One of an edible bunch
- Niagara region, Our_____ Belt
- Monkey's snack
- Monkey's munchie
- Monkey lure
- Long yellow-skinned fruit
- Laffy Taffy flavor
- Jack Johnson's "Pancakes"
- Item on a monkey's wish list
- It's split in a boat
- It has a peel for physical comedy
- Fruit with a yellow peel
- Fruit that's peeled
- Fruit that, surprisingly, is slightly radioactive
- Fruit often sliced onto cereal
- Fruit high in potassium
- Fruit (for a split?)
- Fare for a swinger
- Curved yellow fruit
- Crescent shaped fruit
- Cream pie ingredient
- Chiquita ___
- Chimp's snack
- Cereal topper, perhaps
- Cereal topper
- Base of a split
- A-peel-ing fruit
- ... fire actress Gasteyer permanently ...
- ____ seat
- Pile in to stop a slippery customer producing something slippery?
- People following old lady in bleak, poor state
- Chief, best of the bunch?
- Leader, first of those on hand?
- Vulgar speaker given tropical fruit flip
- See red, green and yellow items
- Leave fruit — lose it!
- Become crazy, having turn with fruit
- Daiquiri flavoring
- It has thick skin
- Split part
- Fruit with a peel
- Snack for a monkey
- With 7-Across, something to start with
- Good source of potassium
- Potassium source
- Fruit for a monkey
- Yogurt flavor
- Second ___
- Company's numero uno
- Smoothie flavor
- Daiquiri fruit
- See 56-Across
- Easily bruised fruit
- Elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
- 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
- Split ingredient
- "___ Boat," Belafonte hit
- Split necessity
- One of a bunch?
- Color also called sunbeam
- ___ split
- Canaan ___, President of Zimbabwe
- Treat for Cheeta
- Kind of split or boat
- Zoo snack, maybe
- Chiquita product
- Split component
- Tropical flavor
- A source of potassium
- Potassium supplier
- Split base?
- Word before republic or seat
- Top ___ (burlesque star)
- Top ____
- Basis of a certain split
- Split or cream pie
- Top ___ (burlesque V.I.P.)
- Tropical fruit
- Word with oil or split
- Cream-pie flavor
- Variety of yellow crackers? Not quite
- Graduate meets fool in plant
- Curved fruit (in a split dessert?)
- Controversial Caribbean plan to embrace United States under Trump's leadership?
- Contemporary of 8 to sanction talk at table
- Small politically unstable country dominated by foreign companies
- Fruit seaman knocked back with Charlie
- Fruit originally bought by a granny
- Fruit held in hand
- Finish off nuts and fruit
- Yellow-skinned fruit
- Long curved fruit
- Restriction per sodium in 5
- Prohibit an American fruit
- Prevent an area producing fruit
- Bare half-cut granny, one of a bunch
- It can be wrapped round head or neck, but not heart or part of hand
- Tomorrow, exchange money for Bahamas' foremost fruit
- Yellow fruit
- Still-life fruit
- Cereal fruit
- Pie flavor
- Tree fruit
- Smoothie ingredient
- Dessert, ... split
- Split level?
- Kind of republic
- Fruit salad ingredient
- Yogurt choice
- Split start
- Split fruit?
- Potassium-rich fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banana \Ba*na"na\ (b[.a]*n[aum]"n[.a]; 277), n. [Sp. banana, name of the fruit.] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size ( Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Note: The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food.
Banana bird (Zo["o]l.), a small American bird ( Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana.
Banana quit (Zo["o]l.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, borrowed by Spanish or Portuguese from a West African word, possibly Wolof banana. The plant was introduced to the New World from Africa in 1516. Top banana, second banana, etc. are 1950s, from show business slang use of banana for "comedian, especially in a burlesque show." Banana split first attested 1920. Banana oil "nonsense" is slang from c.1910.
Wiktionary
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WordNet
n. 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 [syn: banana tree]
elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
Wikipedia
Banana is the common name for flowering plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.
Banana or bananas may also refer to:
The banana is an 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 plantains. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific name Musa sapientum is no longer used.
Musa species are native to tropical Indomalaya and Australia, and are likely to have been first domesticated in Papua New Guinea. They are grown in at least 107 countries, primarily for their fruit, and to a lesser extent to make fiber, banana wine and banana beer and as ornamental plants.
Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet, dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group, which are the main exports from banana-growing countries. By contrast, Musa cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains". In other regions, such as Southeast Asia, many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the simple two-fold distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages.
The term "banana" is also used as the common name for the plants which produce the fruit. This can extend to other members of the genus Musa like the scarlet banana (Musa coccinea), pink banana (Musa velutina) and the Fe'i bananas. It can also refer to members of the genus Ensete, like the snow banana (Ensete glaucum) and the economically important false banana (Ensete ventricosum). Both genera are classified under the banana family, Musaceae.
is a fixed screen puzzle video game produced by Victor Musical Industries that was released exclusively for the Family Computer in Japan in .
Banana ( Serbian Cyrillic: Банана) was a Yugoslav pop rock band from Belgrade.
Banana is a 2015 comedy-drama film written and directed by Andrea Jublin.
For this film Jublin was nominated for David di Donatello for Best New Director.
Banana is a term for an Asian person living in a Western country (e.g., an Asian American) who has lost touch with the cultural identity of his or her parents. The term is derived from the fruit banana, which is "yellow on the outside, white on the inside". It may be used as a pejorative term or as a non-pejorative term.
Banana is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on E4. The sister series to Channel 4's Cucumber and the 4oD documentary series Tofu, Banana is a series focusing on LGBT youth in Manchester, on the vicinity of the Cucumber narrative. Unlike Cucumber, which is a self-contained serial following the story of one gay man, Banana is an anthology series focusing on the wider LGBT spectrum.
Banana develops some of the storylines of characters featured in Cucumber as well as introducing many new characters. Banana is primarily a self-contained series, occasional overlapping with the Cucumber narrative. Cucumber, Banana, and Tofu are all named after the same scale of erection hardness, with Banana symbolising the middle of the scale from the flaccid Tofu to the fully erect Cucumber.
Wang Jiao , known by his tag Banana, is a Chinese Dota 2 coach and player who is the coach for LGD Gaming. He was part of the Newbee eSports Club team that won the single largest money prize in video game history, a 5,028,308 payout at The International 4 (TI4) at the KeyArena, in Seattle, Washington. Newbee defeated ViCi Gaming three game to one. e-Sports Earnings estimates that Banana has won a total of 1,192,049.89 individually from tournaments. As of April 14, 2015, after TI4 Wang "Banana" Jiao was the highest ranking player in terms of prize money won across all competitive video games. Banana joined NewBee in March 2014.
Banana is a name or alias of the following notable people
Given name- Banana (video gamer), alias of the Chinese professional Dota player Wang Jiao
- Banana Joe, alias of the American radio personality Joe Montione (born 1954)
- Banana Yaya (born 1991), Cameroonian footballer
- Banana Yoshimoto, pen name of the Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (born 1964)
- Anna Banana, alias of the Canadian artist Anne Lee Long (born 1940)
- Canaan Banana (1936–2003), Methodist minister and first president of Zimbabwe
- Janet Banana (born Janet Mbuyazwe in 1938), wife of Canaan Banana
- Milton Banana, stage name of the Brazilian jazz drummer Antônio de Souza (1935–1998)
Usage examples of "banana".
Yes, we have no bananas When a department store was advertising its food department, the owners wanted to attract an upscale, gourmet-oriented clientele.
This human cargo represents a weight of about twenty tons, which is equivalent to that of thirty persons, two boars, three sows, twelve piglets, thirty fowls, ten dogs, twenty rats, a hundred balled or potted breadfruit and banana plants, and twelve tons of watergourds, seeds, yams, tubers, coconuts, adzes and weapons.
He wanted to destroy them all, so that he would feel less lonely, and, in order to penetrate this absence with his annihilating presence, he left the jeep behind at a forgotten township where a green track ended and an ancient whisky priest sat all day in the ruins of a forsaken church brewing fire-water from wild bananas and keening the stations of the cross.
Mayonnaise dressing is used for meat, fish, some varieties of fruit, as banana, apple and pineapple, and for some vegetables, as cauliflower, asparagus and tomatoes.
But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.
Even across five hundred yards, Batman could recognize the Soviet bloc weapon with its curved, thirty-round banana magazine.
Two wings extended out toward the street, creating a garden-like area in the center that was planted with pink and gray caladium, banks of philodendrons and elephant ears, climbing roses, banana trees, bamboo, crepe myrtle and azaleas, whose blooms puffed in the wind and tumbled on the grass.
Chubby fed us on banana cake and coffee while Chubby and I worked out a business deal.
Dickie Bonnano, also known as Dickwad, Banana Dick, Dickhead, and sometimes just plain Asshole, was driving the 69.
It is a remarkable fact that the epidemics of yellow fever in New Orleans have declined in virulence almost incredibly since the Banana began to be eaten there in considerable quantities.
Soon he stopped reading, placed one book on top of the other, and began to rock very slowly in the wicker rocking chair, contemplating with regret the banana plants in the mire of the patio, the stripped mango, the flying ants that came after the rain, the ephemeral splendor of another afternoon that would never return.
I was getting used to, Italian focaccia bread and pate and a mad-sounding French cheese called Terroir, peaches and bananas and Greek yoghurt.
Here they built themselves handsome freestone houses, with noble verandahs and balconies and Moorish-looking high-walled gardens, within which grew the banana and the orange, the loquat and the guava, in tropical luxuriance and profusion.
They live in communities consisting of about a dozen individuals, and are strictly monogamous in their conjugal relations, and vegetarian, or rather frugivorous, in their diet, their favourite food being bananas.
No bananas yet, so I called Glory Geis, who chortled happy welcome, and I fenderfought my way to the lake-shore fireside, where once again in the blue jump suit the graceful ragamuffin lady in her second widowhood plied me with a potion which sharpened the taste buds for what the kitchen would provide.