banana family


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Related to banana family: family Musaceae
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Noun1.banana family - treelike tropical Asian herbsbanana family - treelike tropical Asian herbs  
family Musaceae, Musaceae
liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Musales, order Musales - tropical plants
genus Musa, Musa - type genus of the Musaceae: bananas
Ensete, genus Ensete - Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas
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