BANKS

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• BANKS (noun)
  The noun BANKS has 1 sense:

1. English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

  Familiarity information: BANKS used as a noun is very rare.

• BANKS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English botanist who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean (1743-1820)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Banks; Sir Joseph Banks

Instance hypernyms:

botanist; phytologist; plant scientist (a biologist specializing in the study of plants)

 Context examples 

Banks of gorgeous flowers were on every hand, and birds with rare and brilliant plumage sang and fluttered in the trees and bushes.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The Count in his box, then, was on a river in an open boat—propelled probably either by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Spinella added that the findings also provide good news for blood banks, which he said will likely feel less pressure to respond to requests for fresh red cells.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

“I'll provide for her, Sir!” and he flourished his ten fingers in the air, as if they were ten banks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The hollows under fallen trees seemed to attract her, and she spent much time nosing about among the larger snow-piled crevices in the rocks and in the caves of overhanging banks.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Banks become demanding, clients withhold payments, and the need for contingency funds often becomes vital to help you over the hump until promised money arrives.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I held on to the weather rail, close by the shrouds, and gazed out across the desolate foaming waves to the low-lying fog-banks that hid San Francisco and the California coast.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He seized my hand in the darkness and led me swiftly past banks of shrubs which brushed against our faces.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was of the class that dealt with banks.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We are at present, Doctor—as no doubt you have divined—in the cellar of the City branch of one of the principal London banks.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)