a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and that is soft inside, which grows on trees in hot countries 香蕉 a bunch of bananas 一串香蕉 ripe bananas 成熟的香蕉 mashed banana 香蕉泥 a banana skin/peel 香蕉皮/果皮
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- ripe
- overripe
- green
- …
- bunch
- eat
- have
- pick
- …
- peel
- skin
- plant
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa.
Idioms
go bananas
- (slang)
to become angry, crazy or silly 发怒;发疯;犯傻 He lost his job and just went bananas. 他失业了,简直疯了。 The British press has gone bananas, proclaiming the end of civilization as we know it. 英国媒体已经疯了,宣布我们所知的文明终结。