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Definition of Abyssinian banana
1. Noun. Large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Ensete, Genus Ensete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abyssinian Banana
Literary usage of Abyssinian banana
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Abyssinian banana, M. Entête, has dry capsular fruit, and very handsome foliage.
PLANTAIN-EATER. ..."
2. The American Fruit Culturist by John Jacobs Thomas (1897)
"... one species, M. Ensete, the great Abyssinian banana, was pronounced by Charles
Kings- ley the most beautiful of any he had ever beheld. ..."
3. My Garden, Its Plan and Culture Together with a General Description of Its by Alfred Smee (1872)
"I have tasted in this country the produce of the Abyssinian banana, now so much
praised for the beauty of its leaves, both here and in Paris. ..."
4. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"b Midrib of leaf reddish; fruit not fleshy or edible Abyssinian banana. (M.
ensete.*) 2 CANNACEAE. Canna Family. i CANNA CANNA. (C. hybrida. ..."
5. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1906)
"... the intention to have a typical representation of semi-tropical trees, such
as the orange, golden bamboo, loquat, India rubber tree, Abyssinian banana, ..."
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