bush banana en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Australia) Either of two perennial climbing plants of the genus Marsdenia, having long edible fruits: Marsdenia viridiflora or Marsdenia australis.
‘Get him some bush bananas,’ she shouted back. ‘He don't know bush bananas.’ But the bananas, when we got to them, had shrivelled up to nothing.
1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 114:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bush bananas | Number=Plur | lexicographic |