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(very rare) Having the qualities, particularly the shape, of a banana..
Here and there appeared an ominous but graceful swirl in the water; once there was a muffled curse. Minutes later, when the gobs climbed leisurelily out upon the adipose and bananoid shore, one straggler could be discerned loitering in the harbor and slowly tearing an unwary shark to pieces.
The trapped particles have guiding-centre orbits of the bananoid shape shown in Fig.6.
Ordinary, non-metaphorical, exemplification is unproblematic. All of the instances of exemplification considered so far are non-metaphorical. The paint chip literally can exemplify the property of being teal since it literally is teal. The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is bananoid.
Use bananoid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bananoid means (very rare) Having the qualities, particularly the shape, of a banana..
Common synonyms include bananalike.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Here and there appeared an ominous but graceful swirl in the water; once there was a muffled curse. Minutes later, when the gobs climbed leisurelily out upon the adipose and bananoid shore, one straggler could be discerned loitering in the harbor and slowly tearing an unwary shark to pieces.
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