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EDIBLE BANANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does edible banana mean? 

EDIBLE BANANA (noun)
  The noun EDIBLE BANANA has 1 sense:

1. widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruitplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EDIBLE BANANA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

edible banana; Musa paradisiaca sapientum

Hypernyms ("edible 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 "edible banana"):

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


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