Abyssinian banana

English

Pronunciation

Noun

Abyssinian banana (plural Abyssinian bananas)

  1. A banana plant, Ensete ventricosum, with inedible fruit and edible flower stalks;[1] ensete.[2]

References
  1. Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 9
  2. “Abyssinian banana” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 11.
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