The word "banana" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context when referring to the fruit, for example: "I picked up a bunch of bananas at the grocery store".
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banana
noun
An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.
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The game was twice suspended, briefly in the first half after a large inflatable banana was thrown on to the pitch and for around 15 minutes after the interval because of objects hurled from the stands.
Doherty-Bone, who has fed them banana pieces, said the frogs "really can be voracious".
Two men sit at a wooden bar serving hot drinks, doughnuts and e-liquids such as Colonel Custard, Jack the Ripple ("British raspberry ripple ice-cream") and Capote ("Pineapple, peach, banana, cream").
It also causes the banana to turn an unappetising grey.
In addition, don't keep the smoothie in the fridge, because this can cause the banana to change its chemical composition and thereby cause stomach upsets.
What do/did you like or dislike about living here (or do you feel London has an identity in itself, separate from the rest of the UK)? PresterTom asks about... bananas: Hi Kevin, In K-PAX you take a bite out of a banana with the skin on.
Men aren't simply raped, they are forced to penetrate holes in banana trees that run with acidic sap, to sit with their genitals over a fire, to drag rocks tied to their penis, to give oral sex to queues of soldiers, to be penetrated with screwdrivers and sticks.
Yes he's putting on the fiscal breaks, but not like Costello did in 1996 to 1999, nor even like Keating did after the "banana republic" crisis in the late 1980s.
On the ascent from the small town of Trujillo to Venezuela's mountain capital of Mérida, lush tropical scenery dotted with coffee plantations, sugar cane and banana palms gave way to steeply inclined fields still ploughed by oxen, beyond which came the bleak high moorlands or páramos.
She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
"Her chef says her body needs omega-3 fatty acids for maximum fertility, so she'll be eating lots of mackerel, grilled tomatoes and poached eggs, for vitamin D. He has also recommended banana smoothies, because B6 is said to help egg production".
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