| banana | <botany> A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple colour; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food. Banana bird, a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers. Origin: Sp. Banana, name of the fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
|---|---|
| banana orbit | <radiobiology> In a toroidal magnetic geometry, the fast spiraling of a charged particle around a magnetic field line is accompanied by a slow movement (drift) of the centre of the sprial. Particles with relatively low parallel energy are mirrored on the inside of the torus because the toroidal magnetic field has a 1/R dependence and is highest on the inside. The combination of mirroring and drift produces a special class of particle orbits. Projected onto a poloidal plane, the drift orbit has the shape of a banana. These orbits are responsible for neo-classical diffusion and bootstrap current. (09 Oct 1997) |
| vitamin B12 with intrinsic factor concentrate | A combination of vitamin B12 with suitable preparations of the mucosa of the stomach or intestine of domestic animals used for food by humans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cobalamin concentrate | The dried, partially purified product resulting from the growth of selected Streptomyces cultures or other cobalamin-producing microorganisms; contains at least 500 ug of cobalamin in each gram. (05 Mar 2000) |