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  2. List of English words of Spanish origin - Wikipedia

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    banana from Spanish or Portuguese banana, probably from a Wolof word, [4] or from Arabic بأننا “ba’ nana” fingers [5] bandolier from Spanish bandolero, meaning "band (for a weapon or other) that crosses from one shoulder to the opposite hip" and bandolero, loosely meaning "he who wears a bandolier"

  3. Banana - Wikipedia

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    A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [1] ... and passed into English via Spanish or Portuguese. [21] Musa is the type genus in the family ...

  4. Gros Michel - Wikipedia

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    Gros Michel is a triploid cultivar of the wild banana Musa acuminata, belonging to the AAA group. [5] Its official designation is Musa acuminata (AAA Group) 'Gros Michel'. Synonyms include: Musa acuminata L. cv. 'Gros Michel' Musa × paradisiaca L. cv. 'Gros Michel' Gros Michel is known as Guineo Gigante, Banano, and Plátano Roatán in Spanish.

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  6. Lady finger banana - Wikipedia

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    Lady Finger banana is a diploid cultivar originating in Malaysia [1] or Indonesia. [2] It is the most widely cultivated AA cultivar and is one of the world’s most popular local bananas. [ 1 ] Lady Finger (AA), with much A in its genome, is notably difficult to grow and rarely survives with low moisture or humidity.

  7. Fried plantain - Wikipedia

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    Fried yellow plantains are sweet bananas from Central America and the Caribbean fried in hot oil. In the Spanish speaking Caribbean fried green plantains are eaten with mojo sauce in Cuba and Puerto Rico and wasakaka in the Dominican Republic, both a wet savory garlic sauce. They are sometimes eaten with ketchup, or a mayonnaise-ketchup mixture.

  8. Musa × paradisiaca - Wikipedia

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    Musa × paradisiaca is a species as well as a cultivar, originating as the hybrid between Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana, cultivated and domesticated by human very early.. Most cultivated bananas and plantains are polyploid cultivars either of this hybrid or of M. acuminata alo

  9. Jook-sing - Wikipedia

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    Banana (Chinese: 香蕉人/香蕉仔; pinyin: xiāngjiāo rén / xiāngjiāo zi; Jyutping: hoeng1 ziu1 jan4/hoeng1 ziu1 zi2) (referencing the yellow skin and white insides of the fruit when fully matured) and Twinkie (based on the snack produced by American company Hostess - again, it denotes something that is "yellow" on the outside and "white" on the inside); may be used as a pejorative term ...