Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a banana or some aspect of one, such as its characteristic curved shape.

Etymologies

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banana +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A brightly feathered lizard pecked at some bananalike fruit dangling from a nearby tree.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • Pay atention to the differences on the "shine" of the chairs, and how the bananalike leaves doesn't make any reflections at all...

    The Sunset: Tatooine's Best Restaurant Cosmo7 2009

  • Brazilian tribes used to increase the size of their generative organs by tapping them with phallic, bananalike aninga fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Brazilian tribes used to increase the size of their generative organs by tapping them with phallic, bananalike aninga fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Brazilian tribes used to increase the size of their generative organs by tapping them with phallic, bananalike aninga fruits.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • Now you could have it coated in sugar or cinnamon, in bite-size morsels, with slices of genuine bananalike material, and goodness knows what else.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

  • LINKED A boy carrying matoke, a bananalike fruit that is a staple in Uganda.

    NYT > Global Home 2009

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