DWARF BANANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dwarf banana mean? 

• DWARF BANANA (noun)
  The noun DWARF BANANA has 1 sense:

1. low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit

  Familiarity information: DWARF BANANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DWARF BANANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dwarf banana; Musa acuminata

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

banana; banana tree (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)

Meronyms (parts of "dwarf banana"):

banana (elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh)