The difference between Banana and Bananas

When used as adjectives, banana means curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight, whereas bananas means crazy, mad, nuts.


Banana is also noun with the meaning: especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the cavendish banana cultivar.

check bellow for the other definitions of Banana and Bananas

  1. Banana as a noun (North America, UK, Ireland):

    An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.

  2. Banana as a noun:

    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.

  3. Banana as a noun (uncountable):

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

    Examples:

    "color paneFFE135"

  4. Banana as a noun (mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur):

    A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare or .

  5. Banana as a noun (nuclear physics):

    A banana equivalent dose.

  6. Banana as a noun (colloquial):

    A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

  1. Banana as an adjective:

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

  1. Bananas as a noun:

  1. Bananas as an adjective:

    Crazy, mad, nuts.