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From Wolof banaana, via Spanish or Portuguese.

Full definition of banana

(countable and uncountable; plural bananas)

An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa, has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
(mildly pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) 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 coconut ("assimilated Hispanic or Black").

(Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg Western assimilated into Asian culture

not etymologically related

2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155, ISBN 0738847917.Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
2002, Andrew Collins, Guild of Honor, page 53, ISBN 1403371490.He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
2006, Richard Witzig, The Global Art of Soccer, page 247, ISBN 0977668800....Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.