banana
banana
noun
/bəˈnɑːnə/
countable, uncountable
a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and that is soft inside, which grows on trees in hot countries
a bunch of bananas
ripe bananas
mashed banana
a banana skin/peel
SEE ALSO second banana, top banana
TOPICS Food A1
Collocations
adjective
ripe
overripe
green
… of bananas
bunch
verb + banana
eat
have
pick
banana + noun
peel
skin
plant
Idioms
go bananas
Word Origin
late 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa.