Banana Blossom

Banana

A banana is an elongated, edible fruit that is botanically a berry produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas. The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a peel, which may have a variety of colors when ripe. It grows upward in clusters near the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) cultivated bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, or their hybrids.

Blossom

In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring.

banana

Noun

1. The elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. 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.

Adjective

1. Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

blossom

Noun

1. A flower, especially one indicating that a fruit tree is fruiting; a mass of such flowers.
2. The state or season of producing such flowers.

Verb

1. To have, or open into, blossoms; to bloom.
2. To begin to thrive or flourish.