GENUS ENSETE
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ensete mean? • GENUS ENSETE (noun)
The noun GENUS ENSETE has 1 sense:
1. Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
Familiarity information: GENUS ENSETE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS ENSETE (noun)
Meaning:
Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Ensete; genus Ensete
Hypernyms ("genus Ensete" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Ensete"):
Abyssinian banana; Ensete ventricosum; Ethiopian banana; Musa ensete (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)
Holonyms ("genus Ensete" is a member of...):
banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae (treelike tropical Asian herbs)
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