| 单词 | banana |
| 释义 | banana (once / 946 pages) n A banana is a curved, yellow fruit with a thick skin and soft sweet flesh. If you eat a banana every day for breakfast, your roommate might nickname you "the monkey." A banana is a tropical fruit that's quite popular all over the world. It grows in bunches on a banana tree. To "go bananas" is a slangy way of saying "go crazy" or act ridiculous, and if someone refers to the "top banana," they mean the most important person in a particular group. The origin of banana isn't certain, but it's thought that it was borrowed by the Spanish or Portuguese from an African word, probably the Wolof word banana. WORD FAMILYbanana: bananas USAGE EXAMPLESI put a banana peel in the bag to get the roaches’ attention. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) Those may include strawberries, bananas, blueberries, Greek yogurt, apples, kiwi or kale. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) At the Greenbelt Chapel — tucked in amid a Starbucks, a Banana Republic and an Urban Athletics outlet — Friday morning Mass began at 5 a.m. Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1n 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|Hypo|Hyper banana tree Musa acuminata, dwarf banana low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit Japanese banana, Musa basjooAsiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan Musa paradisiaca, plantain, plantain treea banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics Musa paradisiaca sapientum, edible bananawidely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit Manila hemp, Musa textilis, abacaPhilippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh Hyper edible fruit edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
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