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# banana

noun (banana, bananas)

«banana» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A banana is a long curved fruit with a yellow skin that you peel; inside it is soft and sweet. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#m1)
2. A banana plant is the large plant that bananas grow on, in a bunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#m2)

### In the lessons

a fruit on the table; a counted thing in problems («a bunch has 6 bananas»); in everyday life a lunchbox snack, banana bread, smoothies; in science bananas grow in warm places and turn from green to yellow to brown as they ripen; «go bananas» means go wild with excitement

### Examples

- I eat one banana from the table. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x1)
- Student: two bananas and one pear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x2)
- A bunch has 6 bananas. How many bananas are in 3 bunches? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x3)
- Ali bought 8 bananas and ate 2. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x4)
- Peel the banana before you eat it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x5)
- These bananas are still green, so they are not ripe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x6)
- Mum made banana bread with the old bananas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x7)
- The monkey grabbed a banana from the tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x8)
- Don't leave a banana skin on the floor; someone could slip. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x9)
- Early in the morning Rikki-tikki came to early breakfast in the veranda riding on Teddy’s shoulder, and they gave him banana and some boiled egg. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x10)

### Note

A fruit, so it counts in «how many fruits»; no clue for the operation. Spelling: one n, then two: b-a-n-a-n-a. Plural «bananas». Trap: «a bunch of bananas» is one group; count the bananas in it if the question asks for bananas.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «banana» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«banana» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/banana.html) on Mova free.