dwarf banana

American  

noun

1. a large southern Chinese plant, Musa acuminata, of the banana family, having blue-green leaves, yellowish-white flowers with reddish-brown bracts, and fragrant, edible, curved fruit from 4 to 5 inches (10 to 13 centimeters) long, often borne in clusters of 200.

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Example Sentences

There were dwarf bananas, and red ones from Cuba.

From New York Times

He remembers the garden of chrysanthemums, the dwarf banana tree and the large terrace for watching the world go by.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is also cultivating a dwarf banana, too short to be wind-wrung.

From Project Gutenberg

The cannas, and dwarf bananas, and roses are all tangled together, so that I can hardly thread my way among them.

From Project Gutenberg