Ba*na"na (b&adot;*nä"n&adot;; 277), n. [Sp. banana, name of the fruit.] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

&fist; 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.

• An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin. It was discovered by Dr. Fugate in 1877 while researching the effect of skin irritants for humans on tropical monkeys.
  
• The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
  
• (colour) a yellow colour, like that of a banana.
       banana colour:   
  
• (person) a mildly pejorative slang term used to describe people who are "white" (Western) on the inside and "yellow" (of east Asia) on the outside.
       
• Usage: It is particularly used to describe women who have become highly assimilated into Western culture and/or married Caucasians. It is usually used to refer to people of east Asian origin living in Western countries. It is commonly used by Chinese Americans to refer to other American-born Chinese. It is also increasingly used by native Chinese to describe Chinese Americans. Banana Boys is a novel by Terry Woo about a group of Chinese males recounting the past and bringing to light issues they faced while growing up in Canadian society. In the film w:Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Harold says that his Korean friend would call him a twinkie - "Yellow on the outside, white on the inside".
       
• Synonym: jook-sing
       
• Antonym: egg - a white person who acts as a person from east Asia
       
• Related slang terms: coconut - a person who is "brown" (Hispanic) on the outside and "white" (Caucasian) on the inside, oreo - a person who is black (African American) on the outside and "white" (Caucasian) on the inside.
  
• Containing or having the taste of bananas.
  
• Of the colour of bananas.
  
  Bosnian
• a banana
  
  Catalan
• banana
  
  Italian
• banana
  
• A colour of banana, yellow
  
• yellow
  
  Japanese
• バナナ: banana
  
  Serbian
• a banana
  
  Spanish
• banana
  
  [[Tok Pisin]]
• banana
  

• (acronym): Stands for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone or similarly Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything . Someone who objects to the building of any structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate. Used as an expression of irritance and one used for people who are thought of as being worse than NIMBYs.