What's the difference between banana and panda?

Banana


Definition:

  • (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
  • (2) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
  • (3) "The UK is not a banana republic and we do ourselves no favours whatsoever by appearing to behave like one".
  • (4) He told one journalist to “visit the ear doctor” and threw a banana skin at the head of a cameraman.
  • (5) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
  • (6) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
  • (7) Bananas are a staple crop in the region and so controlling the disease would directly enhance food security.
  • (8) Responding by squirrel monkeys was maintained under a 30-response fixed-ratio schedule of food presentation; during different sessions responding produced either sucrose-flavored or banana-flavored food pellets.
  • (9) Ahmed Dirie, independent research consultant, San Jose, US Release Africa's farmlands from cash crops : East Africa exports coffee, tea, flowers, banana and livestock but faces recurrent droughts and food shortages.
  • (10) This article examines a remarkable case of massive sterilization of approximately 1,500 workers in Costa Rica, due to exposure to a toxic nematicide called DBCP 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane), applied in large commercial banana plantations.
  • (11) It’s worth resisting the allure of unnecessary online purchases, one banana at a time.
  • (12) With the Gulf of Cádiz and the Atlantic beyond being among Europe’s most fertile marine areas, and a climate where mangoes and bananas thrive, visitors eat extremely well – and surprisingly cheaply – here.
  • (13) The foundation's chief executive, Michael Gidney, compared the price of a banana that has been shipped in from the Caribbean or Central America to the 20p paid for an apple grown in Britain.
  • (14) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (15) The school's new campus opened last September as part of the – now abolished – Building Schools for the Future programme, and a distinctive Super Lamb Banana statue stands outside the reception.
  • (16) I often find a pile of banana skins in my car at the end of the week.
  • (17) Histamine, tyramine, noradrenaline, serotonin and other pressor amines occur in fruits and fermented foods such as bananas, pineapples, cheese and wine.
  • (18) Gidney said banana farmers had suffered because they were less able to publicise their plight from far overseas.
  • (19) She reminds me of the time David was ridiculed for being photographed grinning inanely with a banana.
  • (20) Ticketed attractions include the small zoo (family ticket £29) and “ banana bikes ” for hire (£10 an hour).

Panda


Definition:

  • (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In short, there is a cultural imperative to love the panda that even the pandapathetic find hard to ignore.
  • (2) Pandas have long been an important symbol of Chinese diplomatic overtures to both allies and former foes.
  • (3) Estimates of panda numbers in the wild vary enormously due to the difficulty of collecting data about the notoriously shy animal, which lives in dense, high-altitude vegetation: the last survey required more than 35,000 volunteers.
  • (4) Conservation efforts should now aim to protect areas that have a better chance of supplying pandas with food, despite climate change, said the scientists.
  • (5) And if captive-breeding of pandas is the best solution, those skills are found in China.
  • (6) Iain Valentine, the zoo's director of giant pandas, said: "The annual panda breeding season is imminent and the next 24 hours are critical.
  • (7) Though Da Mao’s showdown with the snowman may have ended in frustration, the panda will probably have the last laugh.
  • (8) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
  • (9) Natural "bridges" could also be created to help the pandas escape from a bamboo famine.
  • (10) With the species's future in the balance, Chengdu's visitors help to fund a new reserve where it is hoped pandas will ultimately be reintroduced into the wild.
  • (11) "The results of cutting edge scientific analysis have shown that, across the entire pregnancy, Tian Tian had the profile of a pregnant panda likely to carry to full term.
  • (12) Meanwhile in Edinburgh, for the second consecutive year , zoo officials have admitted that their star attraction, the giant panda Tian Tian, is not pregnant , and probably miscarried after she was artificially inseminated in the spring.
  • (13) "The endangered status of the giant panda has not changed."
  • (14) Since its arrival at the Paris's zoological Park, the yeasts of the flora digestive tract of a young female of Giant Panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, was daily, then weekly studied.
  • (15) Up against the continuing might of animated sequel Kung Fu Panda 3 , as well as fellow debutants including romantic drama The Choice and horror-comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , the 50s-set tale of a major film star gone missing scored just $11.4m (£7.9m) to open in second place.
  • (16) As the pandas settled into their new, £250,000 home at the zoo, more intelligence about their lifestyles emerged.
  • (17) Whatever the reason, the window of opportunity for Edinburgh's pandas closed yesterday afternoon.
  • (18) In 1999, a few years after the British handed Hong Kong back to the Chinese, the PRC gifted the region a couple of pandas and followed them up with another pair to mark the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty.
  • (19) As it was announced yesterday that Edinburgh zoo's giant panda, Tian Tian, "may be" pregnant , the usual lip service was once again paid to an animal that resists viability like no other.
  • (20) But the survey also showed that 223 of the endangered wild giant pandas, or 12% of the population, are at high risk due to pressure from factors such as habitat loss.