Banaba is an English word. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Banaba meaning
A Southeast Asian tree (Lagerstroemia speciosa), with medicinal leaves.
Using Banaba
- The main meaning on this page is: A Southeast Asian tree (Lagerstroemia speciosa), with medicinal leaves.
Context around Banaba
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Banaba
- In this selection, "banaba" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, island, fiji, leaf, extending and ocean stand out and add context to how "banaba" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include banaba is one and banaba leaf is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "banaba" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with banaba
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Only around 300 people remain on Banaba. (7 words)
Banaba is one of the least suitable places for agriculture in the world. (13 words)
Air travel 2 small aeroplanes fly out of the Gilbert Islands, except for Banaba. (14 words)
Geography Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Atoll; in the Line Islands), the largest coral atoll (in terms of land area, not dimensions) in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific. (39 words)
Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s where they now number some 5,000 and enjoy full Fijian citizenship. (37 words)
It has elected members, including by constitutional mandate a representative of the Banaban people in Fiji (Banaba Island, former Ocean Island), in addition to the attorney general, who serves as an ex-officio member. (34 words)
Example sentences (9)
Banaba Leaf is included in FitsPresso for its potential role in controlling blood sugar levels.
Air travel 2 small aeroplanes fly out of the Gilbert Islands, except for Banaba.
Banaba is one of the least suitable places for agriculture in the world.
Because Banaba was devastated by phosphate mining, the vast majority of Banabans moved to the island of Rabi in the Fiji Islands in the 1940s where they now number some 5,000 and enjoy full Fijian citizenship.
Coconut palms in Abaiang Kiribati consists of 33 atolls and one solitary island ( Banaba ), extending into the eastern and western hemispheres, as well as the northern and southern hemispheres.
Geography Kiribati includes Kiritimati (Christmas Atoll; in the Line Islands), the largest coral atoll (in terms of land area, not dimensions) in the world, and Banaba (Ocean Island), one of the three great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific.
It has elected members, including by constitutional mandate a representative of the Banaban people in Fiji (Banaba Island, former Ocean Island), in addition to the attorney general, who serves as an ex-officio member.
Only around 300 people remain on Banaba.
The headquarters were then moved to Banaba (which was referred to officially by the British authorities as Ocean Island), and continued upon the transition to a Crown Colony.