†(a) a kind of apple; = apple-john, n. (obsolete); (b) the fruit of any of several plants of the genus Musa, esp. the plantain, M.x paradisiaca (now…
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > tropical exotic fruit > banana > types of (13) apple of paradise1572 †(a) a kind of apple; = apple-john, n. (obsolete); (b) the fruit of any of several plants of the genus Musa, esp. the plantain, M.x paradisiaca (now… plantain1582 Any of several varieties of banana with a high starch content and little sugar, which are picked when not yet ripe and cooked as a vegetable in… Adam's apple1588 A banana or plantain. Cf. apple of paradise n. at apple, n. phrases 3d. Now historical and rare. plantain1756 With distinguishing word: any of various other plants allied to or resembling the plantain. ensete1790 An African relative of the banana, Ensete ventricosum (Musa ensete). fei1829 A type of plantain, Musa fehi, native of Tahiti and New Caledonia. Abyssinian banana1859 the ensete, Ensete ventricosum, a relative of the banana native to north-east Africa where it is cultivated as a food crop for its starchy stem… honey banana1877 a cultivated variety of banana, bearing small, sweet, thin-skinned fruit. Also: the fruit itself. scarlet banana1885 Musa coccinea. Canary banana1889 a common dwarf cultivar of banana first imported from the Canary Islands; a plant bearing such a fruit. lady's finger banana1893 Applied to various fruits and vegetables having an unusually long and slender form. More fully lady's finger banana. A dwarf variety of banana having… Gros Michel1913 the West Indian banana. honey1938 = honey banana n. at compounds 1b(c). |
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