Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small variety of the banana, common in the West Indies and highly esteemed there.
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The paw-paw tree (_annona triloba_) produces a fruit somewhat resembling in taste and shape the fig-banana, but certainly much inferior to that delicious fruit.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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