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    ENSETE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananasplay

    Synonyms:

    Ensete; genus Ensete

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Ensete" is a kind of...):

    liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

    Meronyms (members of "Ensete"):

    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)

    Holonyms ("Ensete" is a member of...):

    banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae (treelike tropical Asian herbs)

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