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(n): a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests

(n): a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

(n): any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits

(n): starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

(n): edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

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colleen (4679 words)

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