Banana (disambiguation)

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

• 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

• Banana, Cape Verde, a settlement on Santiago Island
• Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province
• Banana, Florida, an unincorporated community
• Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
• Banana Island, Lagos, an artificial island in Nigeria
• Banana Islands, Sierra Leone
• Banana Lake, Florida
• Banana River, Florida
• Shire of Banana, a local government area in Queensland, Australia
  • Banana, Queensland, Australia, a small town in the Shire of Banana
• Green Banana Hole, a blue hole near Florida

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen
• Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten
• Banana, a 2010 short film from the Despicable Me franchise
• Banana (film), a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Andrea Jublin
• The Bananas (TV series), a 1969 Canadian children's television series
• Banana (TV series), a 2015 British anthology series by Russell T. Davies

Media

• WWBN ("Banana 101.5"), a rock music radio station in Michigan

Music

• Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
• Bananas (album), an album by English rock band Deep Purple
• The Velvet Underground & Nico, a rock album sometimes referred to as the "Banana Album"
• "Banana" (Anitta song) (with Becky G), a track from the 2019 album Kisses by Anitta
• "Banana" (Conkarah song), a 2019 song by Conkarah featuring Shaggy
• "Bananas (Who You Gonna Call?)", a 1998 single by Queen Latifah
• "Bananas", a track from the 2008 album Inherit by Free Kitten
• "Sweet Banana", the regimental march of the Rhodesian African Rifles
• "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)",a traditional Jamaican folk song.
• "Banana", a skit from the 2005 album Arular by M.I.A.

Other arts and entertainment

• Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine from 1975 until 1979
• Banana (magazine), an Asian-American themed magazine
• Banana (video game), a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System released only in Japan
• Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

People

• Banana (name), a list of people with the given name, surname, pen name or stage name
• Banana (slur), an Asian person living in a Western country who has lost touch with their Asian cultural identity
• Robert "Bananas" Foster, a member of the American electronic band Freezepop

Other uses

• Banana equivalent dose, an informal measurement of ionizing radiation exposure
• Savannah Bananas, an amateur baseball team in the Coastal Plain League
• Banana', a dialect of the Bamayo language of Borneo, Indonesia
• Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything, acronym used by "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) folks opposed to land development

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Banana
• All pages with titles containing Banana
• Banana connector, a single-wire electrical connector
• In chemistry, a bent bond, also referred to as a "banana bond"
• Checkside punt (or banana kick), a kicking style used in Australian rules and rugby league football
• Joseph Bonanno (1905–2002), Italian-American Mafia boss also known as "Joe Bananas"
• Antonio Caponigro (1912–1980), American mobster also known as "Tony Bananas"
• Bannana, a genus of goblin spiders from China
• Banania, a chocolate drink
• Anana (disambiguation)
• Bana (disambiguation)
• Banan (disambiguation)
• Banana republic (disambiguation)
• Bananana (disambiguation)
• Banani (disambiguation)
• Going bananas (disambiguation)