GENUS ENSETE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Ensete mean? 

• GENUS ENSETE (noun)
  The noun GENUS ENSETE has 1 sense:

1. Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas

  Familiarity information: GENUS ENSETE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ENSETE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World tropical herbs: Abyssinian bananas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ensete; genus Ensete

Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Ensete" is a member of...):

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