banana

An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

Jimmy had a banana for breakfast.

I'll need a few things. I'll need some mayonnaise and a silver tin of sardines, a banana.

An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.

A yellow color, like that of a banana's skin.

A person of East or Southeast Asian descent, considered to be overly assimilated and subservient to white authority.

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.

He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.

One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.

David Taylor (Letters, January 23) does not appear to be aware that the NIMBY syndrome, with all its parochial overtones, has been superseded by the all embracing BANANA syndrome – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.

Communities have gone far beyond the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome. Jeff Langholtz, of EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division said, "Right now they don't want us to build them anywhere." Langholtz called the latest in public thinking "BANANA" – build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything. Those opposed to incinerators are more organized than ever, he added.