Word: banana
Word origin: late 16th century: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande.
Phonetic:
bəˈnɑːnə
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a long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe. Example: a bunch of bananas
the tropical and subtropical palmlike plant that bears bananas, having very large leaves but lacking a woody trunk.
insane or extremely silly. Example: I've spent two months in a studio—I must be bananas
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