Banana vs. Bunch: What's the Difference?

Banana and Bunch Definitions
Banana
Any of several treelike plants of the genus Musa, especially M. acuminata, having a terminal crown of large, entire leaves and a hanging cluster of fruits.
Bunch
A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump
A bunch of grapes.
Grass growing in bunches.
Banana
The elongated, edible fruit of these plants, having a thick yellowish to reddish skin and whitish, pulpy flesh.
Bunch
A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together
A bunch of keys on a ring.
People standing around in bunches.
Banana
An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
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Bunch
(Informal) A group of people usually having a common interest or association
My brother and his bunch are basketball fanatics.
Banana
In particular, the sweet, yellow fruit of the Cavendish banana cultivar, which may be eaten raw, as distinct from e.g. a plantain for cooking.
Bunch
(Informal) A considerable number or amount; a lot
A bunch of trouble.
A whole bunch of food.
Banana
The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves.
Bunch
A small lump or swelling; a bump.
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Banana
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
Bunch
To gather or form into a cluster
Bunched my fingers into a fist.
Banana
A person of East Asian descent, especially an ethnic Chinese from a Western country who does not speak Chinese and only speaks English, considered to have overly assimilated and to be subservient to white authority, an East Asian race traitor.
Bunch
To gather together into a group.
Banana
(slang) The penis.
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Bunch
To gather (fabric) into folds.
Banana
(sports) A banana kick.
Bunch
To form a cluster or group
Runners bunching up at the starting line.
Banana
(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.
Bunch
To be gathered together in folds, as fabric.
Banana
A catamorphism (from the use of banana brackets in the notation).
Bunch
To swell; protrude.
Banana
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
Bunch
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
Banana
A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Bunch
(cycling) The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
Banana
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
Bunch
An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
Banana
Elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
Bunch
A considerable amount.
A bunch of trouble
Bunch
(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
Bunch
(forestry) A group of logs tied together for skidding.
Bunch
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
Bunch
(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.
Bunch
(smoking) 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.
Bunch
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
Bunch
(transitive) To gather into a bunch.
Bunch
(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.
Bunch
(intransitive) To form a bunch.
Bunch
(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds
Bunch
(intransitive) To protrude or swell
Bunch
A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.
They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels.
Bunch
A collection, cluster, or tuft, properly of things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.
Bunch
A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.
Bunch
To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.
Bunching out into a large round knob at one end.
Bunch
To form into a bunch or bunches.
Bunch
A grouping of a number of similar things;
A bunch of trees
A cluster of admirers
Bunch
An informal body of friends;
He still hangs out with the same crowd
Bunch
Any collection in its entirety;
She bought the whole caboodle
Bunch
Form into a bunch;
The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom
Bunch
Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;
She bunched her fingers into a fist
The students bunched up at the registration desk