{"word":"banana","etymologies":[{"description":["From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese, of unknown origin, but potentially from Arabic بَنَان‎ (banān, “fingertip”).","In reference to well-assimilated East Asians, derived from the fruit's foreign origins, and the slur that they are \"yellow (Asian) on the outside, white (influenced by Western culture) on the inside\"."],"adjectives":[{"description":"banana (not comparable)","definitionGroups":[{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.","examples":[]}]}]}],"adverbs":[],"nouns":[{"description":"banana (countable and uncountable, plural bananas)","definitionGroups":[{"group":"An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.","entries":[{"meaning":"(Canada, US, UK, Ireland) In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.","examples":["banana:"]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese and only speaks English, considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(slang) The penis.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(sports) A banana kick.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.","examples":[]}]},{"group":null,"entries":[{"meaning":"(computer science, colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).","examples":[]}]}]}],"prepositions":[],"verbs":[],"letter":[],"number":[]}]}