Banana Oil

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Banana Oil

Definition: Banana Oil

Banana Oil

Noun

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definition: Banana Oil

DomainDefinition

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Photo Album: Banana Oil

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Banana oil. "Why hello Goof". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Banana Oil

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

banana oil

18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Banana Oil

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: Banana Oil

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.