The difference between Banana and Coconut

When used as nouns, banana means especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the cavendish banana cultivar, whereas coconut means a fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.


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

check bellow for the other definitions of Banana and Coconut

  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. Coconut as a noun:

    A fruit of the coconut palm (not a true nut), Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.

  2. Coconut as a noun:

    A hard-shelled seed of this fruit, having white flesh and a fluid-filled central cavity.

  3. Coconut as a noun (uncountable):

    The edible white flesh of this fruit.

  4. Coconut as a noun:

    The coconut palm.

  5. Coconut as a noun (pejorative, ethnic slur):

    A Hispanic or dark-skinned person who acts “white” (Caucasian), alluding to the fact that a coconut is brown on the outside and white on the inside.

  6. Coconut as a noun (South Africa, Australia, pejorative):

    A black person who thinks or acts "white" (European).

  7. Coconut as a noun (New Zealand, pejorative):

    A Pacific islander.

  8. Coconut as a noun (slang):

    A female breast.

  9. Coconut as a noun (slang):

    The human head (often used in cricket broadcasts when a ball hits or nearly hits a batsman on the head).