Banana vs. Bunch

Banana vs. Bunch — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Banana and Bunch

Banananoun

An elongated curved tropical fruit that grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

Bunchnoun

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

a bunch of grapes;a bunch of bananas;a bunch of keys;a bunch of yobs on a street corner

Banananoun

Especially, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar.

Bunchnoun

(cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.

Banananoun

The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, usually of the genus Musa but sometimes also including plants from Ensete, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.

Bunchnoun

An informal body of friends.

He still hangs out with the same bunch.
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Banananoun

(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.

Bunchnoun

A considerable amount.

a bunch of trouble

Banananoun

A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare assimilated Hispanic or Black or Black person who is "black outside" and "white inside".

Bunchnoun

(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

A bunch of them went down to the field.

Banananoun

(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.

Bunchnoun

(forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.

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Banananoun

(colloquial) A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).

Bunchnoun

An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.

Bananaadjective

Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.

Bunchnoun

(textiles) The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.

Banananoun

any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits

Bunchnoun

An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

Two to four filler leaves are laid end to end and rolled into the two halves of the binder leaves, making up what is called the bunch.

Banananoun

elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

Bunchnoun

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

Bunchverb

(transitive) To gather into a bunch.

Bunchverb

(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.

Bunchverb

(intransitive) To form a bunch.

Bunchverb

(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds

Bunchverb

(intransitive) To protrude or swell

Bunchnoun

a grouping of a number of similar things;

a bunch of treesa cluster of admirers

Bunchnoun

an informal body of friends;

he still hangs out with the same crowd

Bunchnoun

any collection in its entirety;

she bought the whole caboodle

Bunchverb

form into a bunch;

The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom

Bunchverb

gather or cause to gather into a cluster;

She bunched her fingers into a fistThe students bunched up at the registration desk