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
  • Banana spider

Places

United States

  • Banana, Florida, an unincorporated community
  • Banana Lake, Florida
  • Banana River, Florida

Elsewhere

  • Banana, Cape Verde, a settlement on Santiago Island
  • Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a small seaport in Kongo Central Province
  • Banana, Kiribati, a settlement on Kiritimati Island
  • Banana Island (disambiguation)
  • Shire of Banana, a local government area in Queensland, Australia
  • Banana, Queensland, Australia, a small town in the Shire of Banana
  • Banana belt, any segment of a geographic region with generally warmer climates

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

  • Bananas (film), a 1971 comedy film directed by and starring Woody Allen
  • Bananaz, a 2008 British documentary by Ceri Levy
  • Bananas!*, a 2009 Swedish documentary directed by Fredrik Gertten
  • Banana, a 2010 short film from the Despicable Me franchise
  • Banana (film), a 2015 comedy-drama film directed by Andrea Jublin
  • The Bananas (TV series), a 1969 Canadian children's television series
  • Banana (TV series), a 2015 British anthology series by Russell T. Davies
  • "The Banana" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a season 2 episode

Music

  • Banana (band), a former Yugoslav pop rock band
  • Bananas (Deep Purple album), a 2003 album
  • Bananas (Malcolm Middleton album), a 2018 album
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico, a 1967 rock album sometimes referred to as the "Banana Album"
  • "Banana" (Anitta song) (with Becky G), a track from the 2019 album Kisses by Anitta
  • "Banana" (Conkarah song), a 2019 song by Conkarah featuring Shaggy
  • "Bananas (Who You Gonna Call?)", a 1998 single by Queen Latifah
  • "Bananas", a track from the 2008 album Inherit by Free Kitten
  • "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", a traditional Jamaican folk song.
  • "Banana", a skit from the 2005 album Arular by M.I.A.

Games

  • Banana (1986 video game), a video game released on the Family Computer in 1986 in Japan
  • Banana (2024 video game), a clicker game released through Steam in 2024
  • Banana (gamer), Chinese competitive Dota 2 player

Other arts and entertainment

  • WWBN ("Banana 101.5"), a rock music radio station in Michigan
  • Bananas (literary magazine), a British literary magazine from 1975 until 1979
  • Banana (magazine), an Asian-American themed magazine
  • Bananas Comedy Club, two venues for stand-up comedy in the northeastern United States

People

  • Banana (name), a list of people with the given name, surname, pen name or stage name
  • Banana (slur), an Asian person living in a Western country who has lost touch with their Asian cultural identity
  • Robert "Bananas" Foster, a member of the American electronic band Freezepop

Other uses

  • Banana equivalent dose, an informal measurement of ionizing radiation exposure
  • Savannah Bananas, an barnstorming baseball team in the Banana Ball Championship League
  • Banana', a dialect of the Bamayo language of Borneo, Indonesia
  • Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything, an acronym used to describe the attitude of people opposed to land development

See also

  • Banana boat (disambiguation)
  • Banana fish (disambiguation)
  • Banana Joe (disambiguation)
  • Banana Man (disambiguation)
  • Banana republic (disambiguation)
  • Banana Split (disambiguation)

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  • Anana (disambiguation)
  • Bana (disambiguation)
  • Banan (disambiguation)
  • Banani (disambiguation)
  • Going bananas (disambiguation)
  • Joseph Bonanno (1905–2002), Italian-American Mafia boss also known as "Joe Bananas"
  • Antonio Caponigro (1912–1980), American mobster also known as "Tony Bananas"

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  • Bannana, a genus of goblin spiders from China
  • Banania, a chocolate drink
  • Bananya, a Japanese animated television series