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Definition: Banana Oil |
Banana OilNoun1. A liquid ester derived from amyl alcohol; has the odor of bananas. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Commercial amyl acetate is a mixture of isomers, the composition and properties depending upon the grade and derivation; the principal isomers are isoamyl, normal, and secondary amyl acetates. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Banana oil. "Why hello Goof". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
banana oil | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "banana oil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | amylacetat (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Dutch | banaanolie (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil), amylacetaat (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Finnish | amyyliasetaatti (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
French | acétate d'amyle. (various references) | |
German | Amylacetat (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Greek | οξικό αμύλιο (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Italian | olio di banana (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil), acetato di isoamile (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ananabay oilay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | acetato de amilo (amyl acetate, amylacetic ester, pear oil). (various references) | |
Spanish | acetato de amilo (amyl acetate). (various references) | |
Swedish | amylacetat (amyl acetate). (various references) | |
Thai | เรื่องไร้สาระ (bologan, cock and bull story, hoo-ha, kak, rot). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dầu chuối. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-i-l-n-n-o" | |
-3 letters: alanin, albino, banana, banian. | |
-4 letters: aboil, aloin, anion, annal, banal, binal, blain, labia, lanai, liana. | |
-5 letters: alan, alba, anal, anil, anna, anoa, anon, baal, bail, bani, blin, boil, bola, lain, linn, lino, lion, loan, loin, naan, nail, nana, naoi, noil, nona, obia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-i-l-n-n-o" | |
+3 letters: labanotation. | |
+4 letters: balkanization, labanotations. | |
+5 letters: balkanizations, cyanocobalamin. | |
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