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bush bananas

bush bananas is the plural of bush banana.

Meaning of bush banana

Noun

bush banana (plural bush bananas)

  1. (Australia) Either of two perennial climbing plants of the genus Marsdenia, having long edible fruits: Marsdenia viridiflora or Marsdenia australis.
    • ‘Get him some bush bananas,’ she shouted back. ‘He don't know bush bananas.’ But the bananas, when we got to them, had shrivelled up to nothing.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 114

Questions about bush bananas

What is bush bananas the plural of?
Bush bananas is the plural of bush banana.

Words near bush bananas in the dictionary

  1. bush baby
  2. bush ballad
  3. bush balladry
  4. bush ballads
  5. bush banana
  6. bush bananas
  7. bush baptist
  8. bush baptists
  9. bush bar
  10. bush bars
  11. bush bean

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