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Definition of Banana family
1. Noun. Treelike tropical Asian herbs.
Generic synonyms: Liliopsid Family, Monocot Family
Group relationships: Musales, Order Musales
Member holonyms: Genus Musa, Musa, Ensete, Genus Ensete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banana Family
Literary usage of Banana family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field, Forest, and Garden Botany, a Simple Introduction to the Common Plants by Asa Gray (1880)
"... banana family. Here is assembled a group of tropical or subtropical plants,
with leaves having distinct petiole and blade, the latter traversed by ..."
2. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"THE banana family—Musa'cea. Splendid herbaceous plants of the tropics, the larger
kinds tree-like in figure and stature. Mu'sa, the principal genus, ..."
3. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"The banana family is a very small one, but exceedingly important, since it
furnishes, in the shape of bananas, the principal subsistence of multitudes of ..."
4. Botany by Wilfred William Robbins, John Nathan Martin (1919)
"... of the Dicotyledons from which Jute is obtained and the Banana-like plant of
the banana family from the leaf stalks of which Manila hemp is obtained. ..."
5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "First Lessons in by Asa Gray (1880)
"banana family PROPER. Not aromatic or pungent. Stamens 5 with 2-celled anthers,
and au abortive naked ..."
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