From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Banana \Ba*na"na\ (b[.a]*n[aum]"n[.a]; 277), noun [Sp. banana, name of the fruit.] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size ({Musa sapientum}); also, its edible fruit. See {Musa}.
Note: The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food.
{Banana bird} (Zo["o]l.), a small American bird ({Icterus leucopteryx}), which feeds on the banana.
{Banana quit} (Zo["o]l.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus {Certhiola}, allied to the creepers.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: 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: {banana tree}]
2: elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "banana": burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lampooner, madcap, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, wag, wagwit, wisecracker, wit, witling, zany
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