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  • The worship always depicts Durga with her four children, and occasionally two attendant deities and some banana-tree figures.

    Archive 2009-09-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The 2,400-square-foot ground-floor apartment has 3 1/2 baths and comes with Italian marble flooring and a terrace, with a whirlpool tub, opening into a palm and banana-tree garden.

    Andie MacDowell 2008

  • Banana yields have already dropped by 50-70 per cent, and banana-tree life spans have been reduced from about 30 years to just about two years.

    Boing Boing: July 20, 2003 - July 26, 2003 Archives 2003

  • Here's the entire spread, minus the banana-tree fruit bowl we keep in the kitchen which has duh bananas, lemons and limes as I didn't think that was very Christmas-y.

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2005

  • The idea that the future life is like the present does not appear to prevail; yet a banana-tree had been carefully planted at the head of several of the graves; the fruit might be considered an offering to those who still possess human tastes.

    A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

  • The banana-tree has been introduced from Norfolk Island, where it grows spontaneously.

    The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

  • School-kids ran along the side of the road, shielding themselves from the rain with flopping banana-tree leaves.

    Pop Goes The Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

  • School-kids ran along the side of the road, shielding themselves from the rain with flopping banana-tree leaves.

    Pop Goes the Weasel Patterson, James, 1947- 1999

  • The materials used in pot manufacture depend on local availability: compressed earth, pottery, bamboo tubes, banana-tree fibre, etc.

    1.1. Forests 1982

  • And on his orders they hastened to construct a barrier of banana-tree trunks.

    Malayan Literature Various

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