英语词汇“banana”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

banana

/bəˈnɑːnə

noun

1A long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe: a bunch of bananas...

Towers started a fruit farm, growing bananas and avocados.
Her eyes widened when she saw the bright orange pumpkins, the ripe yellow bananas, silks with colors that she had never before seen.
Farmers grow corn, cassava, peanuts, bananas, and citrus fruits for their own consumption.

2 (also banana plant or banana tree) The tropical and subtropical palm-like plant which bears bananas, having very large leaves but lacking a woody trunk.

Genus Musa, family Musaceae: several species, in particular M. sapientum.

Here, people cultivate the ensete plant, which looks like a banana tree, but its trunk pulp is prepared and eaten....

I heard of one gardener in North Carolina who protected his banana plant in his front yard by surrounding the plant with bags and bags of leaves.
Vivienne's smile turned wistful and she turned to snap a picture of sunlight filtering through the leaves of a banana tree.

Phrases

go (or be) bananas

top (or second) banana

Origin

Late 16th century: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande.

Africa is the original home of the banana. The word travelled to English through Portuguese and Spanish from Mande, a language group of West Africa, arriving in the 16th century. In the 20th century slang expressions began to appear. American people began to go bananas with excitement, anger, or frustration in the 1950s. The top banana, ‘the most important person in an organization’, derives from US theatrical slang. It referred to the comedian with top billing in a show, a use first recorded in 1953 from a US newspaper, which also mentions second and third bananas. People have been slipping on a banana skin since the beginning of the 20th century: the comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) referred in 1934 to ‘Treading upon Life's banana skins’. The banana republic, a small state, especially in central America, whose economy is almost entirely dependent on its fruit-exporting trade, was referred to as early as 1904.

单词	banana
释义	banana /bəˈnɑːnə / noun 1A long curved fruit which grows in clusters and has soft pulpy flesh and yellow skin when ripe: a bunch of bananas... Towers started a fruit farm, growing bananas and avocados. Her eyes widened when she saw the bright orange pumpkins, the ripe yellow bananas, silks with colors that she had never before seen. Farmers grow corn, cassava, peanuts, bananas, and citrus fruits for their own consumption. 2 (also banana plant or banana tree) The tropical and subtropical palm-like plant which bears bananas, having very large leaves but lacking a woody trunk. Genus Musa, family Musaceae: several species, in particular M. sapientum. Here, people cultivate the ensete plant, which looks like a banana tree, but its trunk pulp is prepared and eaten.... I heard of one gardener in North Carolina who protected his banana plant in his front yard by surrounding the plant with bags and bags of leaves. Vivienne's smile turned wistful and she turned to snap a picture of sunlight filtering through the leaves of a banana tree. Phrases go (or be) bananas top (or second) banana Origin Late 16th century: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Africa is the original home of the banana. The word travelled to English through Portuguese and Spanish from Mande, a language group of West Africa, arriving in the 16th century. In the 20th century slang expressions began to appear. American people began to go bananas with excitement, anger, or frustration in the 1950s. The top banana, ‘the most important person in an organization’, derives from US theatrical slang. It referred to the comedian with top billing in a show, a use first recorded in 1953 from a US newspaper, which also mentions second and third bananas. People have been slipping on a banana skin since the beginning of the 20th century: the comic writer P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) referred in 1934 to ‘Treading upon Life's banana skins’. The banana republic, a small state, especially in central America, whose economy is almost entirely dependent on its fruit-exporting trade, was referred to as early as 1904. Rhymes Africana, Afrikaner, Americana, ana, Botswana, bwana, cabana, caragana, Christiana, Dana, darner, Edwardiana, garner, Georgiana, Ghana, Gloriana, Guiana, gymkhana, Haryana, iguana, Lana, lantana, liana, Lipizzaner, Ljubljana, Mahayana, mana, mañana, marijuana, nirvana, Oriana, pacarana, piranha, prana, Purana, Rosh Hashana, Santayana, Setswana, sultana, Tatiana, Tijuana, Tirana, tramontana, Tswana, varna, Victoriana, zenana
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