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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word banana:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. banana: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. banana: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. BANANA: The Word Spy
  4. banana: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. banana: Collins English Dictionary
  6. banana: Vocabulary.com
  7. Banana, banana: Wordnik
  8. banana: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Banana: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. BANANA, banana: Wiktionary
  11. banana: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. banana: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. banana: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. BANANA: Dictionary.com
  15. banana: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. banana: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. BANANA, Banana (TV series), Banana (disambiguation), Banana (film), Banana (fruit), Banana (magazine), Banana (name), Banana (slur), Banana (video game), Banana (video game player), Banana: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Banana: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. banana: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. banana: Rhymezone
  21. banana, banana: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. BANANA, Banana: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. banana: Free Dictionary
  24. banana: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. banana: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. banana: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Banana: World Wide Words
  28. banana: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. banana: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Congo Cookbook (No longer online)
  3. banana: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BANANA, Banana (fruit): Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. banana: Netlingo
  2. Banana (fruit), banana: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. BANANA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. banana: Idioms
  4. Banana: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  3. Banana: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Banana (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. banana: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. banana: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. B.A.N.A.N.A: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bananas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
noun:  (Canada, US, UK, Ireland) 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.
noun:  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.
noun:  (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
noun:  (derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.
noun:  (slang) The penis.
noun:  (sports) A banana kick.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
noun:  (computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
adjective:  Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
noun:  (informal, humorous, derogatory, often attributively) One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.

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