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Definition of Ravenala madagascariensis

1. Noun. Giant treelike plant having edible nuts and leafstalks that yield a refreshing drink of clear watery sap; reputedly an emergency source of water for travelers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ravenala Madagascariensis

Literary usage of Ravenala madagascariensis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Madagascar, Mauritius and the Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller (1901)
"Travellers' Tree (ravenala madagascariensis), after Sibree. Only a league behind Tamatave we may meet with an expanse of water covered with the reddish ..."

2. Madagascar, Mauritius and the Other East-African Islands by Conrad Keller (1901)
"Travellers' Tree (ravenala madagascariensis), after Sibree. Only a league behind Tamatave we may meet with an expanse of water covered with the reddish ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"TRAVELER'S TREE, an arborescent plant (ravenala madagascariensis') belonging to the family ..."

4. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"... representing an interesting genus which is known to most people only by the other of its two species, the larger ravenala madagascariensis. ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"In the more marshy places great numbers of the travellers' tree, Ravenala madagascariensis, occur ; and along, the rivers, and in particularly sheltered ..."

6. Annals of Botany (1901)
"SCOTT-ELLIOT, GF—Note on the Fertilization of Musa, Strelitzia Reginae, and ravenala madagascariensis (with Plate XIV), iv. 259. ..."

7. A Journey in Brazil by Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1886)
"... so graceful and easy in their movements, and the Banana of Madagascar (Ravenala madagascariensis), commonly known as the Traveller's tree, which, ..."

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