Banana Banana A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus "Musa". In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be 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 rind, which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible seedless (parthenocarp) bananas come from two wild
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana single word, but with a different meaning each time. It is also used as an example of punning. The wordplay is based on the distinct meanings of the two occurrences of the word "flies" (the verb "travel through the air" and the noun for certain insects), and of the word "like" (the preposition "similarly to" and the verb "enjoy"). For example, the second clause can be read as "fruit travels through the air similar to a banana" or as "certain insects enjoy a banana". This is an example of a garden-path sentence, a phrase that the reader or listener normally