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Ensete

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Noun1.Ensete - Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananasEnsete - Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
genus Ensete
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
banana family, family Musaceae, Musaceae - treelike tropical Asian herbs
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
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The word ensete signifies the tree against hunger, or the poor's tree, though the most wealthy often eat of it.
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