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Banana bunchy top epidemic
Banana bunchy top epidemic: global spread of banana bunchy top virus (BBTV, Babuvirus), vectored by Pentalonia nigronervosa aphids and infected suckers; first recorded Fiji 1879/1889, in Australia 1913, Hawaii 1989, 19 African countries; absent from the Americas.
Banana bunchy top virus
Banana bunchy top virus is a plant virus spread by the banana aphid that causes bunchy top disease, the most serious virus disease of banana and plantain worldwide.
Banana connector
The banana connector, also called a banana plug, is a single-wire electrical connector with a sprung 4 mm pin, used for test equipment leads and hi-fi speaker cables.
Banana equivalent dose
The banana equivalent dose (BED) is an informal unit of radiation exposure equal to one banana's potassium-40 dose, about 0.1 microsieverts, used to explain small exposures.
Banana Fish (バナナフィッシュ)
Banana Fish (バナナフィッシュ) is Akimi Yoshida's shōjo-published suspense manga, serialized in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic 1985–1994 across 19 volumes, set in 1980s New York, with a 2018 MAPPA anime.
Banana Massacre
The Banana Massacre (Masacre de las Bananeras): killing of United Fruit Company strikers by the Colombian Army under General Carlos Cortés Vargas in Ciénaga, Magdalena, on 6 December 1928, after a strike of over three weeks; death toll disputed, memorialized in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂)
Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂) is a 1989 Taiwanese drama directed by Wang Toon, second of his Modern Taiwan Trilogy, about two soldiers retreating to Taiwan in 1949 under fake identities, White Terror persecution, and a family of no blood relation; Chang Shih won the Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor.
Banana park
Banana park (ばなな公園; Банана парк) names several places: a banana-themed playground in Nerima, Tokyo; a Russian indoor children's park chain founded 2014 in Surgut with 7 parks in 5 regions; a closed Gran Canaria attraction; and a Copenhagen amusement park.
Banana pepper
Banana pepper, also called yellow wax or sweet banana pepper, a mild 0-500 SHU Capsicum annuum cultivar with smooth waxy yellow fruits, pickled or fresh; distinct from pepperoncini and Hungarian wax.
Banana Pi
Banana Pi is a family of open-source single-board computers launched in April 2014 as a faster Raspberry Pi-compatible board, now made by Chinese manufacturer SINOVOIP.
Banana production in the Caribbean
Banana production in the Caribbean is the cultivation of bananas across the Caribbean islands for export and domestic use, historically led by the Windward Islands and Jamaica.
Banana republic
A banana republic is a politically unstable country whose economy depends on exporting a single product, a term O. Henry coined in 1901 from his time in Honduras.
Banana Republic
Banana Republic is an American clothing and accessories brand owned by Gap Inc., founded in 1978 in Mill Valley, California, and positioned above Gap in price.
Banana slug
Banana slug, genus Ariolimax (Pacific banana slug, Ariolimax columbianus): large yellow-to-black shell-less gastropod of Pacific coast rainforests from California to Alaska, up to 10 inches long, a decomposer, California state slug and UCSC mascot.
Banana split
Banana split: American ice cream dessert of a lengthwise-split banana, three ice cream scoops, sauces, nuts, whipped cream, and a cherry; invented 1904 by David Strickler at Tassell Pharmacy, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with competing claims from Wilmington, Ohio, and Boston.
Banana streak virus
Banana streak virus (BSV), a badnavirus of the family Caulimoviridae, causes banana streak disease in Musa. Distinctive for infectious endogenous integrants (eBSV) in the B genome that activate under hybridization and stress, with mealybug vectors and >99.9% eBSV identity complicating PCR diagnosis.
Banana Wars
Banana Wars: retrospective name for US military interventions and occupations in Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Mexico, 1898-1934, driven by United Fruit interests and the Roosevelt Corollary, ending with the Good Neighbor Policy.
Banana Xanthomonas wilt
Banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW), caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum, is a bacterial wilt of banana, plantain, and enset confined to Africa, spreading from Ethiopia and Uganda since 2001, causing up to 100% yield loss, and managed only by cultural practices.
Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto (吉本ばなな; real name Yoshimoto Mahoko) is a Japanese novelist born in Tokyo in 1964, best known for her debut Kitchen (1987) and fiction about loss and healing, published in over 30 countries.
Bananaman
Bananaman is a British comic-strip superhero parody, created in 1980 for DC Thomson's comic Nutty, in which schoolboy Eric Wimp becomes a hero by eating a banana.
Bananarama
Bananarama are a British pop group formed in London by Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward, and Siobhan Fahey; later a duo. Hits "Cruel Summer", "Venus" (US No. 1), "I Heard a Rumour"; 12 studio albums, 30 million records sold.
Bananas
Bananas (1971) is Woody Allen's second film as director, a political farce in which product tester Fielding Mellish joins and leads a revolution in the fictional republic of San Marcos, co-starring Louise Lasser and Carlos Montalbán.
Bananas in Pyjamas
Bananas in Pyjamas: Australian ABC children's franchise about banana twins B1 and B2 and teddy bears on Cuddles Avenue; live-action series 1992 to 2001, animated revival from 2010/2011, 2026 live-action reboot by Windmill.
Banaphool
Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, best known by his pen name Banaphool, was an Indian Bengali writer and physician who wrote hundreds of short stories, novels, and plays.
Banaras Hindu University (बनारस हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय)
Banaras Hindu University (BHU, काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय) is a central university in Varanasi, India, founded 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya under the BHU Act 1915; largest residential university in Asia, NIRF 2025 university rank 6.
Banaras Locomotive Works
Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) is a government-owned electric locomotive manufacturer in Varanasi, India. Founded in 1961 as the Diesel Locomotive Works, it was renamed in 2020 and exports locomotives.
Banarasi brocade
Banarasi brocade is a zari-ornamented silk fabric woven in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, whose motifs are built into the cloth on the loom; the name has been Geographically Indication protected since 2009.
Banarasi saree
The Banarasi saree is a silk sari woven in Varanasi, India, known for its brocade patterns with zari and shaped under Mughal patronage in the 16th century.
Banarasidas
Banarasidas (बनारसीदास, 1586–1643) was a Jain merchant of the Shrimal clan, born in Jaunpur and settled in Agra, who completed the Ardhakathanak in 1641, possibly the earliest autobiography in an Indian language.
Banās Kāntha
Banās Kāntha (બનાસકાંઠા), or Banaskantha, is a northern Gujarat district, India, headquartered at Palanpur, named for the Banas River, formed 1 May 1960, home to Banas Dairy and Ambaji temple, bifurcated in 2025 to create Vav-Tharad district.