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,
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana" is a humorous saying that is used in linguistics as an example of a garden path sentence or syntactic ambiguity, and in word play as an example of punning, double entendre, and antanaclasis. "Time flies like an arrow" is an English phrase often used to illustrate syntactic ambiguity. In this connection the sentence is often seen as part of the elaboration: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". Modern English speakers understand the sentence to unambiguously mean