Word Finder - banana

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An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

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The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

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A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

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(mildly) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut or Oreo.

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A banana equivalent dose.

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A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

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The penis.

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A banana kick.

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Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

While Dean stretched his muscles and alternated between bites of peanut butter sandwich and a banana, Fred perused the rest of the master lists.

The jasmine, almond, banana, cork and coco-nut palm are among the trees.

The natives live very largely on vegetable food, among the most important plants which supply them being the taro, yam, banana, bread-fruit, arrow-root, pandanus and coco-nut.

English traders were established on Bance and the Banana islands as long as the slave trade was legal.

The cotton and coffee plants are indigenous; banana plantations surround the villages.

The amount of the rainfall shows great variations in different years, the records at Banana showing a total fall of 16 in.

These last are of special importance, and the best kind, the Chinese banana, is said to have sprung from a plant given to the missionary John Williams, and cultivated in Samoa.

Alan in the pub - drinking a banana milkshake!

The development of the banana trade dates from 1881, when 3500 bunches of fruit were exported to New Orleans.

Durra, ground-nuts, yams and cotton are the principal products, and the palm and banana abound.

Orange liqueur flamed chocolate fondue is served with strawberries, apples, melon, banana, pineapple, pound cake, and marshmallows.

Formerly this coast region furnished large quantities of Brazil-wood (Caesalpinia echinata), and the river valleys have long been the principal source of Brazil's best cabinet-wood - rosewood (Dalbergia nigra), jacaranda (Machaeriumfirmum,Benth.),vinhatico (Plathymenia foliosa, Benth.), peroba (Aspidosperma peroba), cedro, &c. The exotic mangabeira (mango) is found everywhere along the coast, together with the bamboo, orange, lemon, banana, cashew, &c.

Not only are rice and maize, sugar and coffee, among the widely cultivated crops, but the coco-nut, the bread-fruit, the banana and plantain, the sugar-palm, the tea-plant, the sago-palm, the coco-tree, the ground-nut, the yam, the cassava, and others besides, are of practical importance.

So important is this crop that the rate of wages to labourers in the banana districts is nearly 3s.

In 1904, exclusive of banana steamers, there were regular steamship services weekly from Limon to the United States and Germany, fortnightly to Great Britain, and monthly to France, Italy and Spain; while at Puntarenas four American liners called monthly on the voyage between San Francisco and Panama.

Of these the apple and the pear are now very inferior in Corfu; the others thrive well and are accompanied by all the fruit trees known in southern Europe, with addition of the Japanese medlar (or loquat), and, in some spots, of the banana.

Of crops the vilayet produces wheat (which is indigenous), rice, barley (which takes the place of oats as food for horses), durra (a coarse, maize-like grain), sesame, cotton and tobacco; of fruits, the date, orange, lemon, fig, banana and pomegranate.

The common fruits are the date, orange, citron, fig, grape, apricot, peach and banana.

There are gutta-percha, india-rubber and other trees and plants yielding gums, the banana, mango, and many other trees and plants yielding fruits; and various trees and plants yielding nuts, spices, oils and medicines.

Hats are made of palm leaves, alaca leaves, banana leaves, split bamboo and various grasses.

Coffee, rice and a variety of fruits, such as the lemon, orange, banana, pine-apple and coco-nut are readily grown, as well as sago, red-pepper, tobacco and cotton.

Considerable attention is also given to fruit cultivation in these subtropical provinces, where the orange, lemon, fig, melon, pineapple and banana are produced with much success.

Banana, close to the mouth of the Congo and Banana Point, possesses one of the best natural harbours on the west coast of Africa, and is capable of sheltering vessels of the largest tonnage.

Among the many varieties of trees and plants found are the date palm, mimosa, wild olive, giant sycamores, junipers and laurels, the myrrh and other gum trees (gnarled and stunted, these flourish most on the eastern foothills), a magnificent pine (the Natal yellow pine, which resists the attacks of the white ant), the fig, orange, lime, pomegranate, peach, apricot, banana and other fruit trees; the grape vine (rare), blackberry and raspberry; the cotton and indigo plants, and occasionally the sugar cane.

Since the development of the fruit trade on the shores of the Caribbean sea and Gulf of Mexico by an important American company, which owns a large tract of land near Santa Marta devoted to banana cultivation, and has built a railway 50 m.

Among the more common fruit-trees, some of which are exotics, may be mentioned cacao (Theobroma), orange, lemon, lime, pine-apple, banana, guava (Psidium), breadfruit (Artocarpus), cashew (A nacardium), alligator pear (Pers ea), with the apple, peach, pear, and other fruits of the temperate zone on the elevated plateaus.

Unable to dwell on how Hell knew what she liked for breakfast, she wolfed down the pastries and a banana before crossing to the bathroom for a shower.

They picnicked on fresh bread and jam washed down with warm Gatorade and a banana for dessert, sprawled in the grass next to a country stream, in a meadow abloom with spring flowers.

Once you have the ice cream, you can make ice cream sundaes or banana splits.

The nutrients in the banana skin are supposed to make the cabbages grow quickly.

I can't bloody wait to get back to England and have a soy banana smoothie at your Juice Bar.

Also available is a breakfast smoothie, made from almonds, muesli, banana, honey, milk and raspberries.

Our only failure was with the banana bread - far too soggy.

May 1954 Strikes brought the banana industry in the country to a near standstill.

Snip in 4 ready-to-eat dried apricots, add 1 tbsp sultanas and 1 small sliced banana.

Diners are being tempted by indulgencies such as chocolate sundae with chocolate sauce and classics such as Banana Split.

Sweets might include caramelized lemon tart, banana and cinnamon Pavlova or iced terrine of white and dark chocolate.

Other good breakfasts are banana or honey on granary toast, fruit juice and fruit with yogurt is a good one too.

Fran's suggestions are steak and mushroom pie and Banoffi pie, sticky toffee and banana pudding, not everybody's cup of tea.

A few slices of frozen banana or some silken tofu give an extra creamy texture.

Election posters -- showing only one visage in banana republic fashion -- banner forth the supremacist politics of an ambitious neighbor.

Then make the mashed banana into a smooth paste by using your electric whisk or a blender.

The climate is suited not only to banana production but also to growing yams, dasheen, mangoes and coconuts.

In the wise words of the great beer yogi " banana ananda ", " nothing is guaranteed!

He was beginning to banana guide feel strangely youthful; the sound of his own heart suddenly became apparent.

The town is the trading centre of a large plantation region behind it and is the centre of the banana and cocoanut export trade.

The natives are in the habit of making holes in the aa, and planting in them banana shoots or sweet-potato cuttings, and though the holes are simply filled with stones or fern leaves, the plants grow and in due time are productive.

A large variety of fruit is produced, including the tamarind, mango, banana, pine-apple, guava, shaddock, fig, avocado-pear, litchi, custard-apple and the mabolo (Diospyros discolor), a fruit of exquisite flavour, but very disagreeable odour.

Whenever there 's a coup in a banana republic, they always seize control of the radio station.

What I love is leaving an odd banana to ripen on the trees that the birds can eat.