HyperDic: genus_ravenala

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Ravenala:
NOUNplantgenus Ravenalawoody tropical plants with tall trunks
English > genus Ravenala: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningwoody tropical plants with tall trunks; sometimes placed in family Musaceae.
Member ofStrelitziaceae, family Strelitziaceae, strelitzia familywoody plants with erect stems of tropical South America and South Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar
Memberstraveler's tree, traveller's tree, ravenala, Ravenala madagascariensisgiant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap
Broadermonocot genus, liliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Spanishgenus ravenala
Catalangenus ravenala

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