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

• 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 River, Florida
• Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
• Banana, Queensland, Australia, a small town
  • Shire of Banana, a local government area
• Banana Island, an artificial island in Lagos, Nigeria
• Banana Islands, Sierra Leone

Arts and entertainment

Films

• Banana (film), a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Andrea Jublin
• Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen
• Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten

Music

• Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
• The Bananas, an American pop-punk band
• Bananas (album), the 17th studio album by English rock band Deep Purple
• WWBN ("Banana 101.5"), a rock music radio station in Michigan
• The Velvet Underground & Nico, a rock album sometimes referred to as the "Banana Album"

Other

• Banana (TV series), a 2015 British anthology series by Russell T Davies airing on E4
• Banana (video game), a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System released only in Japan
• Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine from 1975 until 1979

Other uses

• Banana (name)
• NIMBY#BANANA, an acronym for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
• Banana, descriptive term for one of the basic human female body shapes
• Banana (slur), an Asian person living in a Western country who has lost touch with their Asian cultural identity
• Banana', a dialect of the Bamayo language of Borneo, Indonesia
• Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

See also

• 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
• Bannana (spider), a genus of goblin spiders from China
• Banan (disambiguation)
• Banana republic (disambiguation)
• Banania, a chocolate drink
• Going bananas
• Ananas