- 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ripe
- overripe
- green
- …
- bunch
- eat
- have
- pick
- …
- peel
- skin
- plant
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See banana in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo bananas
- (slang) to become angry, crazy or silly
- He'll go bananas when he finds out.
- The British press has gone bananas, proclaiming the end of civilization as we know it.
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