Bananaphile
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who loves bananas.
"Our bananaphiles meanwhile were raising a furor in the newspapers. Why weren’t people eating more bananas? Why weren’t the sick people in the hospitals given bananas to eat instead of questionable eggs and so forth?"
Example
More examples"Our bananaphiles meanwhile were raising a furor in the newspapers. Why weren’t people eating more bananas? Why weren’t the sick people in the hospitals given bananas to eat instead of questionable eggs and so forth?"
Etymology
From banana + -phile.
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