Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Malay Archipelago, the banana, Musa paradisiaca.

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Examples

  • I was quite partial to the local tropical fruit and had nothing but that for breakfast every day -- mango, papaya, and those little bananas that in Malaysia are called pisang emas.

    The Speculist: It's a New Phil, Week 22 2006

  • I was quite partial to the local tropical fruit and had nothing but that for breakfast every day -- mango, papaya, and those little bananas that in Malaysia are called pisang emas.

    The Speculist: June 2006 Archives 2006

  • These two supposed exorcists clothe their nastiness under a veneer of religion and call themselves "The Professional Islamic Support and Nurture Group" or P.I.S.A.N.G allow me to roll around the floor laughing here - pisang means banana!

    Irony and weirdness: a Malaysian story Glenda Larke 2009

  • Nirvana features a superb rendition of roti pisang, though you can't always get it: Roti service is suspended during main feedings of its hearty rice meals at lunch and supper.

    Roti Canai 2009

  • These two supposed exorcists clothe their nastiness under a veneer of religion and call themselves "The Professional Islamic Support and Nurture Group" or P.I.S.A.N.G allow me to roll around the floor laughing here - pisang means banana!

    Archive 2009-06-01 Glenda Larke 2009

  • If the living room is not considered a rather public location, perhaps an adult might want to change their underwear there the next time friends come over for tea and cucur or pisang goreng.

    Incommunicado Sharon Bakar 2005

  • I am slightly allergic to the bananas grown in this hemisphere, but they can't hold a candle to the little pisang emas "golden bananas" I enjoyed while living in Malaysia.

    The Speculist: Going Bananas 2007

  • A huge fire was built on the beach, and the small fish, stuffed into green bamboo joints, were thrown in the ashes; larger ones were sprinkled with _lombak_ dust (seasoning) and wrapped in pisang leaves.

    The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart

  • A photograph I have shows at least twenty-five varieties of fruit; the pisang being universally used, as well as the rambutan, durian, pomalo, and papaya.

    Travels in the Far East Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

  • Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamine they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles, and insects.

    Tarzan of the Apes 1914

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