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Figue Baudin
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French
Etymology
Baudin Banana. fr ht fig banana, itself from fr fr figue fig”—figs in Haiti are called ht fig frans, French banana or originally “fig of France, and named after Nicolas Baudin, a 19th-century French naturalist and explorer who collected those bananas in a voyage to Southeast Asia and grew them at a Martinican botanical garden.
Pronunciation
fr
Noun
f +first Figue Baudin
fr obsolete fr Gros Michel early 19th century
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