BANANA

BANANA

Banana is the common name for flowering plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.

Banana or bananas may also refer to:

In nature

Ensete ventricosum (Ethiopian banana, false banana, enset), an important foodcrop in Ethiopia
Nymphoides aquatica (banana plant), an aquatic species known for its unusual root structure
Strelitzia nicolai (wild banana), a banana-like plant with an erect woody stem

Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province
Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
Banana, Queensland, a small town located in Central Queensland, Australia
Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
The Bananas, an American pop-punk band
Banana (video game), a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System released only in Japan
Bananas (album), the 17th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple
Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen
Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine that ran for 25 issues from 1975 until 1979
Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten
United States of Banana, a 2011 postmodern novel by Hispanic-American author Giannina Braschi

Canaan Banana (1936–2003), Methodist minister and first president of Zimbabwe
Milton Banana (1935–1998), bossa nova jazz drummer
Banana Yoshimoto (born 1964), pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto, a contemporary Japanese writer

BANANA, an acronym for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
Banana, descriptive term for one of the basic human female body shapes
Banana, a pejorative term related to the Cantonese term jook-sing
Banana connector, a single-wire electrical connector
Checkside punt (or banana kick), a kicking style used in Australian Rules and rugby league football