Banana
(noun)
- A long, curved fruit with a yellow or green skin and soft, sweet white flesh inside.
- The tropical plant that bears this fruit.
Origin:
From wolof word "banaana", which was borrowed into arabic as "mawz" and then into spanish and portuguese as "plátano" and then into english.
Examples:
- He ate a banana for breakfast.
- She made banana bread with overripe bananas.
- He added banana to his smoothie for extra sweetness.
- She put a banana in her lunch bag for a snack.
- He planted a banana tree in his backyard.