1. Elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
   "She sliced a banana into her morning cereal"
    
2. Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits
   "The banana tree's large leaves provided shade in the tropical garden";
   - banana tree

Derived forms: bananas

Type of: edible fruit, herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: dwarf banana, edible banana, genus Musa, Musa, Musa acuminata, Musa paradisiaca sapientum

Encyclopedia: Banana, FL