bush banana

English

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. [from 19th c.]
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 114:
      ‘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.
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