a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and soft flesh, that grows on trees in hot countries • a bunch of bananas Idiom: go bananas Word Origin:
late 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa. Example Bank:
• The company has acquired an unhappy knack of slipping on banana skins.
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Bananas are long curved fruit with yellow skins.
...a bunch of bananas. N-VAR
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If someone is behaving in a silly or crazy way, or if they become extremely angry, you can say that they are going bananas. (INFORMAL)
Adamson’s going to go bananas on this one. ADJ: v-link ADJ
ba·nana /bəˈnænə, Brit bəˈnɑːnə/ noun, pl-nan·as[count, noncount] : a long curved fruit with a thick peel that is yellow when it is ripe • a bunch of bananas • peel a banana • (US) a banana peel = (Brit) a banana skin
✦In British English banana skin is used figuratively to describe a foolish or embarrassing mistake or failure. • a director who has
