Banana vs. Bunch: What's the Difference?

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.

A group of things growing close together; a cluster or clump

The elongated, edible fruit of these plants, having a thick yellowish to reddish skin and whitish, pulpy flesh.

A group of like items or individuals gathered or placed together

An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.

(Informal) A group of people usually having a common interest or association

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.

(Informal) A considerable number or amount; a lot

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.

A small lump or swelling; a bump.

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

To gather or form into a cluster

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.

To gather together into a group.

(slang) The penis.

To gather (fabric) into folds.

(sports) A banana kick.

To form a cluster or group

(nuclear physics) A banana equivalent dose.

To be gathered together in folds, as fabric.

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

To swell; protrude.

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

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

A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

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

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

An informal body of friends.

Elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

A considerable amount.

(informal) An unmentioned amount; a number.

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

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

(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.

(smoking) An unfinished cigar, before the wrapper leaf is added.

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

(transitive) To gather into a bunch.

(transitive) To gather fabric into folds.

(intransitive) To form a bunch.

(intransitive) To be gathered together in folds

(intransitive) To protrude or swell

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

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.

A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein.

To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round.

To form into a bunch or bunches.

A grouping of a number of similar things;

An informal body of friends;

Any collection in its entirety;

Form into a bunch;

Gather or cause to gather into a cluster;