VocabularyUncategorizedbanana
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banana

/bəˈnænə/

A long, soft, yellow fruit that you can eat.

Bananas are often eaten as a snack or with breakfast. A plantain is a similar fruit, but it is usually cooked before you eat it.

Illustration for banana
EXAMPLES
  • I eat a banana every morning.
  • She put two bananas in the shopping bag.
  • This banana is not ripe yet.
GRAMMAR
Countable noun · plural bananas
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
eat a bananaa ripe bananaa yellow bananabanana bread
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