bananas
plural of banana
bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)
Crazy, mad, nuts.
• See also insane
BANANAs
plural of BANANA
Source: Wiktionary
Ba*na"na, n. Etym: [Sp. banana, name of the fruit.] (Bot.)
Definition: A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Note: The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food. Banana bird (Zoöl.), a small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana.
РBanana quit (Zo̦l.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
