Banana Bananas were hung from nooses around the campus of American University in May 2017 after the student body elected its first black woman student government president. The Unicode standard includes the emoji character . 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,
Banana connector marked "Gnd" indicating the relative polarity of the two plugs. Besides plugging into specific banana jacks, banana plugs may plug into "five-way" or "universal" binding posts on audio equipment. The PL-259 plug is widely-used as an HF cable connector; it is a shielded form of a 4 mm banana plug. A number of widely used plugs are based on combining two or more banana plugs in a common plastic housing and other features for ease of use and to prevent accidental insertion in other such plugs. Many of these plugs are derived from the "double banana" plug consisting simply of