Definition of Bananas

1. Noun. (plural of banana) ¹

2. Adjective. crazy, mad, nuts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bananas

1. banana [n] - See also: banana

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bananas

banana plugs
banana pudding
banana quit
banana republic
banana republics
banana seat
banana skin
banana split
banana splits
banana tree
bananadine
bananaless
bananalike
bananaquit
bananaquits
bananas (current term)
bananas Foster
bananeries
bananery
banans
banat
banate
banats
banausic
banc
banch
banco
bancor
bancos

Literary usage of Bananas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1918)
"Jamaica's industries were almost paralyzed until she found relief in the raising and exporting of bananas. Abandoned sugar estates were turned into ..."

2. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1921)
"For example, the starch of apples and of bananas in the maturing of the fruit becomes converted into simpler carbohydrates, while the sugars of maize ..."

3. Food Ingestion and Energy Transformations: With Special Reference to the by Francis Gano Benedict, Thorne Martin Carpenter (1918)
"JC, April 7, (648 grams bananas, 77 grams sugar, with a total fuel value of 962 ... bananas. In February 1910, three experiments were made in Boston with ..."

4. The Microbiology and Microanalysis of Foods by Albert Schneider (1920)
"Ripe bananas form a rich food. Green bananas are very difficult to ... bananas (green and ripe) are under suspicion of being carriers of amebic dysentery. ..."

5. The Everglades and Other Essays Relating to Southern Florida by John Clayton Gifford (1912)
"Both bananas and papaws, however, are picked when full, but still green. ... The tropical planter has bananas to roast and bananas to fry, sweet bananas and ..."

6. Costa Rica Pocket Adventure Guide by Bruce Conord, June Conord (2006)
"bananas & the Jungle Train By the mid-1800s, coffee had become very big business ... Keith determined to cultivate bananas in the tropical lowlands to raise ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"Although they will do fairly well in the climate of Jamaica in a great variety of soils, the best land for bananas is the deep, rich, and moist alluvium of ..."

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