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banana

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UK /bəˈnɑːnə/US /bəˈnænə/
noun

a long curved fruit with a thick yellow skin and that is soft inside, which grows on trees in hot countries

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because the chimpanzee would score half right if I gave him two bananas—with Sri Lanka and Turkey—they would be right half of the cases.

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