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EDIBLE BANANA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit
Synonyms:
edible banana; Musa paradisiaca sapientum
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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)