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BANANA TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits

Synonyms:

banana; banana tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("banana tree" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "banana tree"):

dwarf banana; Musa acuminata (low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit)

Japanese banana; Musa basjoo (Asiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan)

Musa paradisiaca; plantain; plantain tree (a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics)

edible banana; Musa paradisiaca sapientum (widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit)

abaca; Manila hemp; Musa textilis (Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc)

Holonyms ("banana tree" is a member of...):

genus Musa; Musa (type genus of the Musaceae: bananas)

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