Ensete

/ˈɛnsət/

Synonyms for "ensete" (6 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
african bananaedible starch source

Strong matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
ensete genus

Related words (3)

Noun(3 words)
false bananafood cropstaple crop

Related word relations

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cultivated plantfood productperennial plantplantstaple food

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3 entries
Ensete ventricosumensete flourensete starch

Collocations

6 entries
African cropEthiopian stapleensete cultivationensete plantensete starchfalse banana

Inflections

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Sample sentences

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[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.

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Were it not for the enſete, therefore, the Galla would have ſcarce any vegetable food. Mr [James] Bruce thinks that the enſete may have been cultivated in ſome of the gardens of Egypt about Roſetto, but that it was not a native of the country.

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On the way I saw, for the first time, Enset, a nice plant, which is described in [James] Bruce's Travels. The Abyssinians use it in baking bread, which is wrapped in it, and gives to it a particular scent, which I do not like.

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Here, among his Cycads and his Orchids, his Ensetes and his Dracænas, spade in hand, a wideawake hat on his head, a rare flower in his button-hole, and rustic contentment irradiating his face—here, amid scenery which typifies a botanist's paradise, Sir John Kirk is emphatically At Home.

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