BANANA FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does banana family mean? 

• BANANA FAMILY (noun)
  The noun BANANA FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. treelike tropical Asian herbs

  Familiarity information: BANANA FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BANANA FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treelike tropical Asian herbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae

Hypernyms ("banana family" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "banana family"):

genus Musa; Musa (type genus of the Musaceae: bananas)

Ensete; genus Ensete (Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas)

Holonyms ("banana family" is a member of...):

Musales; order Musales (tropical plants)