Ensete ventricosum

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Ensete ventricosum
    n 1: 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
         [syn: {Abyssinian banana}, {Ethiopian banana}, {Ensete
         ventricosum}, {Musa ensete}]
    

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