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banana-phile

banana-phile is the alternative form of bananaphile.

Meaning of bananaphile

Noun

bananaphile (plural bananaphiles)

  1. One who loves bananas.
    • Our bananaphiles meanwhile were raising a furor in the newspapers. Why weren’t people eating more bananas? Why weren’t the sick people in the hospitals given bananas to eat instead of questionable eggs and so forth?1967, Moishe Nadir, “The Eatabananists”, in Max Rosenfeld, editor, A Union for Shabbos, and Other Stories of Jewish Life in America, Philadelphia, Pa.: Sholom Aleichem Club Press, page 187

Forms of banana-phile

pluralbanana-philes

Questions about banana-phile

What is banana-phile the alternative form of?
Banana-phile is the alternative form of bananaphile.

Words near banana-phile in the dictionary

  1. banana-bender
  2. banana-benders
  3. banana-ey
  4. banana-like
  5. banana-nose
  6. banana-phile
  7. banana-philes
  8. banana-shaped
  9. banana-y
  10. bananabird
  11. bananabirds

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