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# banana

«banana» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long curved fruit with a yellow skin that you peel…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (banana, bananas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A banana is a long curved fruit with a yellow skin that you peel; inside it is soft and sweet. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x1)
- Student: two bananas and one pear [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x3)
- Ali bought 8 bananas and ate 2. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x4)
- Peel the banana before you eat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x5)
- These bananas are still green, so they are not ripe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x6)
- Mum made banana bread with the old bananas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/#x7)
- The monkey grabbed a banana from the tree. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [People argue whether the banana is a clever joke about money and art or proof that the art market is silly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/11/)
- [Banana skins are slippery because of a gel on the inside; scientists who measured it won the joke Ig Nobel Prize in 2014.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/13/)
- [Bananas grow on a giant herb, not a tree, and the fruits curve upwards towards the light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/346-fruit-how-apples-bananas-oranges-strawberries-and-grapes-grow/3/)
- [Commas separate the items in a list: "I bought apples, bananas and grapes."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/5/)
- [Ordinary plurals never take an apostrophe: bananas, apples, cars.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «banana» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/banana/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.