banana tree


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Noun1.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 fruitsbanana 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
banana
herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
genus Musa, Musa - type genus of the Musaceae: bananas
dwarf banana, Musa acuminata - low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
Japanese banana, Musa basjoo - Asiatic banana plant cultivated especially as a foliage plant in Japan
Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree, plantain - a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
edible banana, Musa paradisiaca sapientum - widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit
Musa textilis, abaca, Manila hemp - Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc
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Coconut palms, banana trees, and lofty breadfruit trees gave food and sun-shelter.
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If you broke off a three foot sprout from a banana tree, scuffed out a hole, stuck it in and tamped the dirt down around it, you got a week's supply of food in the form of small green bananas a couple months later.
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My friend has a 4ft banana tree that is getting too big.
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Stately spikes up to a metre tall QMY friend has a 4ft banana tree which is getting too big.
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ASK CAROL QMY friend has a 4ft banana tree which is getting too big.
It's time to sing the blues; Whether you go for deep ocean hues or paler sky-like tones, pick and plant your bulbs now to create a vivid sea of colour come next spring
ASK CAROL ASK CAROL QMY friend has a 4ft banana tree which is getting too big.
It's time to sing the blues; Whether you go for deep ocean hues or paler sky-like tones, pick and plant your bulbs now to create a vivid sea of colour come next spring
A grill is made by splitting the trunk of a banana tree.
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A typical banana plant takes anywhere from six to nine months to become productive after which it dies and a new sucker spring out from its carcass, yet to allude the resiliency of the banana tree to that of the country's banana industry would be an oversight.
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The banana tree can grow anywhere, and it doesn't require much care.
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This otherworldly fantasy continued when I passed a banana tree branch, heavy with fruit, hanging from the lobby rafter.
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