bananaphile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "Turn page upside down, notice legends on banana cloth wrapping. “Bananaphiles” may have a new collecting interest."
- "Within the memory of many an old bananaphile are the days of loss-leader sales in chain stores of bananas, three pounds for a dime."
- "Tarzan’s dead but Jane’s still swinging. Bananaphiles enjoy a wild look at old age."
- "There are other bona fide bananaphiles in Charlotte — most of the people attending the reception for her show on May 20 enjoying liquid banana surprises had already “gone bananas.”"
- "There are three stages of ripeness. The first is the banana with a touch of green; the second is light yellow; and the third is yellow with dark-brown flecks on it. Most people prefer the first two stages, but bananaphiles know that the brown-flecked is the sweetest."