bush banana

noun

Either of two perennial climbing plants of the genus Marsdenia, having long edible fruits: Marsdenia viridiflora or Marsdenia australis.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounbush banana (plural bush bananas)

plural bush bananas

  1. AustraliaEither of two perennial climbing plants of the genus Marsdenia, having long edible fruits: Marsdenia viridiflora or Marsdenia australis.First known use 19th c.

    ‘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
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