香蕉 — meaning in English

English meaning

• banana noun A long curved tropical fruit with soft flesh and a peelable yellow skin.
• plantain noun A starchy, banana-like fruit that is usually cooked before eating, similar to a potato in culinary use.
• sycamore noun A North American shade tree with mottled, flaking bark, or a related large maple grown in Europe.

Senses

香蕉 is used for these senses in English:

• banana (North America, UK, Ireland) 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.
• plantain The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.
• sycamore (US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.

banana — full definition

1. noun A long curved tropical fruit with soft flesh and a peelable yellow skin.
2. noun The tall tropical plant that produces this fruit.

plantain — full definition

1. noun A starchy, banana-like fruit that is usually cooked before eating, similar to a potato in culinary use.
2. noun A common broad-leaved weed of the genus Plantago, unrelated to the banana-family plantain.