0 a boat designed to carry bananas from tropical places, sometimes also used by passengers to travel on:
He vividly describes the small villages, markets, white sands and banana boats of Jamaica.
Dorothy loved travel and thought nothing of sleeping on a luggage rack or the deck of a banana boat.
I met him on a banana boat in which I was working my passage from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro.
Take a banana boat from the Kent coast to the Dominican Republic, Panama and Costa Rica and back.
His intellectual curiosity leads him to fascinating parts of the world, often in interesting ways - across the Atlantic in a banana boat, for example.