bananas

Noun

banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)

1. An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
   • Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.
   1. (Canada, Ireland, UK, US) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
2. The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
3. (uncountable) A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.
4. (derogatory, ethnic, slur) A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.

   Synonyms:

   Twinkie

5. (Malaysia, Singapore, derogatory, ethnic, slur) A person of Chinese descent who cannot speak Mandarin or any Chinese dialect

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