different between bananas vs strawberry

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b??n??n?z/
• (US) enPR: b?-n?'n?z, IPA^(key): /b??næn?z/

Noun

bananas

1. plural of banana

Adjective

bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)

1. Crazy, mad, nuts.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 377]:

     I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane

Derived terms

• go bananas

Related terms

• bananapants

French

Verb

bananas

1. second-person singular past historic of bananer

Lithuanian

Noun

banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2

1. banana (fruit)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Probably from English.

Adjective

bananas (indeclinable?)

1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.

Synonyms

• (bananas, crazy): gal, sprø, kokkeliko, klin kokos, ikke riktig, ikke riktig klok

Derived terms

• gå bananas (“go bananas”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Probably from English.

Adjective

bananas (indeclinable?)

1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

As above.

Derived terms

• gå bananas (“go bananas”)

Portuguese

Noun

bananas

1. plural of banana

Spanish

Noun

bananas

1. plural of banana

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ba?nanas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ba?na?naz/, /ba?nanaz/

Noun

bananas f pl

1. plural of banana

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English str?awber?e, corresponding to straw +? berry. The word for straw was derived from a verbal participle and thus meant "(that which is) strewn", hence the applicability to berries growing as if they have been “strewn” about the ground.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st???b(?)?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st????b??i/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?st???b??i/

Noun

strawberry (countable and uncountable, plural strawberries)

1. The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

   They went to pick strawberries today.

2. Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).

   She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
3. A dark pinkish red colour, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.

4. (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
5. (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
   • 1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers (page 40)

     […] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]

   • 1997, Peter Collier, ?David Horowitz, The Race Card (page 91)

     The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]

Synonyms

• earthberry

Translations

Adjective

strawberry (not comparable)

1. Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

   I'd like a large strawberry shake.

2. Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
3. Of a color similar to ripened strawberries.

   The strawberry lipstick makes her look younger.

Translations

Verb

strawberry (third-person singular simple present strawberries, present participle strawberrying, simple past and past participle strawberried)

1. (intransitive) To gather strawberries.
   • 1994, New England Review (volume 16, page 35)

     We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.

2. (intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.
   • 1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero (page 352)

     My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• arbutus
• Carolina allspice
• hautboy
• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

References

• strawberry at OneLook Dictionary Search
• strawberry in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• strawberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fragaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Fragaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons