Ensete
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Ensete ventricosum, a species of flowering plant in the banana family Musaceae, the root of which is used for food and other purposes. countable, uncountable
"[T]he figs of the Enſete are not eatable; they are of a tender, ſoft ſubstance; watery, taſteleſs, and in colour and conſiſtence ſimilar to a rotten apricot; they are of a conical form, crooked a little at the lower end, about an inch and a half in length, and an inch in breadth where thickeſt."
Example
More examples"[T]he figs of the Enſete are not eatable; they are of a tender, ſoft ſubstance; watery, taſteleſs, and in colour and conſiſtence ſimilar to a rotten apricot; they are of a conical form, crooked a little at the lower end, about an inch and a half in length, and an inch in breadth where thickeſt."
Etymology
From Ge'ez እንሰት (inset, “the false banana Ensete ventricosum; ensete”).
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