Banana (disambiguation)
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Banana is the common name for flowering plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce.
Banana or bananas may also refer to:
In nature [edit]
- Ensete ventricosum (Ethiopian banana, false banana, enset), an important foodcrop in Ethiopia
- Nymphoides aquatica (banana plant), an aquatic species known for its unusual root structure
- Strelitzia nicolai (wild banana), a banana-like plant with an erect woody stem
Places [edit]
- Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province
- Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
- Banana, Queensland, a small town located in Central Queensland, Australia
- Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States
Media [edit]
- Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
- The Bananas, an American pop-punk band
- Banana (video game), a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System released only in Japan
- Bananas (album), the 17th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple
- Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film written by Mickey Rose and Woody Allen
- Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine that ran for 25 issues from 1975 until 1979
- Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten
- United States of Banana, a 2011 postmodern novel by Hispanic-American author Giannina Braschi
People [edit]
- Canaan Banana (1936–2003), Methodist minister and first president of Zimbabwe
- Milton Banana (1935–1998), bossa nova jazz drummer
- Banana Yoshimoto (born 1964), pen name of Mahoko Yoshimoto, a contemporary Japanese writer
Other [edit]
- BANANA, an acronym for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
- Banana, descriptive term for one of the basic human female body shapes
- Banana, a pejorative term related to the Cantonese term jook-sing
- Banana connector, a single-wire electrical connector
- Checkside punt (or banana kick), a kicking style used in Australian Rules and rugby league football
See also [edit]
- Banan (disambiguation)
- Banana republic (disambiguation)
- Banania, a chocolate drink
- All pages beginning with "Banana"
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