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Noun
An elongated curved tropicalfruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
(Canada) Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.
The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
(pejorative) A person of Asian descent, especially a ChineseAmerican, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare coconut (“assimilated Hispanic or Black”) or Oreo (“Black person who is "black outside" and "white inside"”).
