word-vault/dist/data/cards/ba/banana.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "banana",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/fr/fruit_tropical.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and that is soft inside, which grows on trees in hot countries",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a bunch of bananas"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ripe bananas"
                },
                {
                    "text": "mashed banana"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a banana skin/peel"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Food"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["ripe", "overripe", "green"],
                "… of bananas": ["bunch"],
                "verb + banana": ["eat", "have", "pick"],
                "banana + noun": ["peel", "skin", "plant"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to become angry, crazy or silly",
            "labels": "(slang)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He'll go bananas when he finds out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The British press has gone bananas, proclaiming the end of civilization as we know it."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bəˈnɑːnə/",
                "audio": "ba/banana/banana__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/bəˈnænə/",
                "audio": "ba/banana/banana__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: via Portuguese or Spanish from Mande. Mande is a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken by the Mande people of West Africa."
}