English > Ensete: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | (Old World tropical herbs) Abyssinian bananas. |
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| Synonym | genus Ensete |
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| Member of | Musaceae, family Musaceae, banana family | treelike tropical Asian herbs |
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| Members | Abyssinian banana, Ethiopian banana, Ensete ventricosum, Musa ensete | large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots |
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| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | ensete, género ensete, genus ensete |
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| Catalan | ensete, genus ensete |
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