The difference between Banana and Bunch

When used as nouns, banana means especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the cavendish banana cultivar, whereas bunch means a group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

Banana is also adjective with the meaning: curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

Bunch is also verb with the meaning: to gather into a bunch.

check bellow for the other definitions of Banana and Bunch

  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. Bunch as a noun:

    A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

    Examples:

    "a bunch of grapes;  a bunch of bananas;  a bunch of keys;  nowrap a bunch of yobs on a street corner"

  2. Bunch as a noun (cycling):

    The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

  3. Bunch as a noun:

    An informal body of friends.

    Examples:

    "He still hangs out with the same bunch."

  4. Bunch as a noun (US, informal):

    A considerable amount.

    Examples:

    "a bunch of trouble"

  5. Bunch as a noun (informal):

    An unmentioned amount; a number.

    Examples:

    "A bunch of them went down to the field."

  6. Bunch as a noun (forestry):

    A group of logs tied together for skidding.

  7. Bunch as a noun (geology, mining):

    An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Page"

  8. Bunch as a noun (textiles):

    The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.

  9. Bunch as a noun:

    An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

    Examples:

    "Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch."

  10. Bunch as a noun:

    A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

  1. Bunch as a verb (transitive):

    To gather into a bunch.

  2. Bunch as a verb (transitive):

    To gather fabric into folds.

  3. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To form a bunch.

  4. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To be gathered together in folds

  5. Bunch as a verb (intransitive):

    To protrude or swell

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