bananalike

English

Etymology

banana + -like

Adjective

bananalike (comparative more bananalike, superlative most bananalike)

  1. Resembling a banana or some aspect of one, such as its characteristic curved shape.
    • 1934, Ernest Elwood Stanford, Economic plants‎
      The fruit is bananalike but large-seeded and inedible.
    • 1972, Pauline C Paul, Helen Hanson Palmer, Food theory and applications
      Compounds present in the chromatogram that contributed to bananalike aroma...
    • 1973, Vernon Barger, Martin G Olsson, Classical mechanics: a modern perspective‎
      However, the characteristic bananalike shape of most boomerangs has little to do with their ability to return.

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