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Cavendish

Cavendish

19 4.8
A common banana variety grown and sold worldwide
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkæv.ɪn.dɪʃ/
translation icon : plátano Cavendish
  • For dessert, we have ordered a few Cavendish bananas, which our waiter has brought on a plate.

Examples

  • Our revered leader, Henry Cavendish, is coming too.

    The Tailor of Panama (2001)

  • Cavendish Place.

    Sherlock Holmes (2010)

  • I'm Jay Cavendish... son of Lady Cavendish.

    Slow West (2015)

  • The very next month, Chadwick, working under Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Oxford, UK, announced the discovery of the neutron.

    Academic text (2012)

  • John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton at the Cavendish Laboratory had been developing circuitry to produce extremely high voltages.

    Academic text (2012)

  • In India, where there are hundreds of banana breeds, the Cavendish is known as the hotel banana.

  • The Cavendish variety of banana is the most popular type found in many grocery stores.

Synonyms

banana
vsCavendish
123 1.0

A tall tropical plant with large leaves that grows clusters of fruit

is a common cultivated variety name and also a surname and place name

Surface Forms

Cavendish main

Etymology

Cavendish for the banana is named after the English Cavendish family who grew these plants in their greenhouses, and the family name stuck, so Cavendish now means the common banana variety sold in shops.