ensete

ensete englanniksi

1. Ensete

1. (taxfmt), a species of plant in the banana family (taxfmt), the root of which is used for food and other purposes.

(syn)|false banana

2. (quote-book)

3. (quote-book)|editor=&91;(w)&93;| title=Britannica Third Edition|Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature; ... The Third Edition, in Eighteen Volumes, Greatly Improved| location=Edinburgh| publisher=Printed for Bell (engraver)|Andrew Bell and Colin Macfarquhar|year=1797|volume=XII (Mill to Negropont)| page=469| pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=cthTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA469| column=1| oclc=166588720| passage=Were it not for the enſete, therefore, the Galla would have ſcarce any vegetable food. Mr Bruce|James Bruce thinks that the enſete may have been cultivated in ſome of the gardens of Egypt about Roſetto, but that it was not a native of the country.

4. (quote-book), London| year=1843| page=79| pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/journalsofrevmes00isenpage/79/mode/1up/|oclc=680429377| passage=On the way I saw, for the first time, Enset, a nice plant, which is described in James Bruce's Travels. The Abyssinians use it in baking bread, which is wrapped in it, and gives to it a particular scent, which I do not like.

5. (quote-book)| year=1886| page=39| pageurl=https://archive.org/stream/kilimanjaroexpe01johngoogpage/n75/mode/1up/|oclc=156194682| passage=Here, among his Cycads and his Orchids, his Ensetes and his Dracænas, spade in hand, a wideawake hat on his head, a rare flower in his button-hole, and rustic contentment irradiating his face—here, amid scenery which typifies a botanist's paradise, Sir Kirk (explorer)|John Kirk is emphatically At Home.