Gros Michel

English thumb|A bunch of Gros Michel (or Big Mike) bananas Etymology en fr Gros Michel, of unknown origin; see it for more. Pronunciation en /ɡɹoʊ̯ mɪˈʃɛl/ en En-us-Gros Michel.ogg GA Noun 1 A en triploid en cultivar of en banana, popular in the early 20th century, predominant in the marketplace, but wiped out as a commercial cultivar mid-20th century by en Panama disease. en Big Mike calque en Cavendish Translations Burmese: my Cambodian: km French: fr Gros Michel mf, fr Grosse Michel f rare Indonesian: id Pisang Ambon Malay: ms Pisang Ambon, ms Arab Malaysian: zms Pisang Ambon Spanish: es Guineo Gigante, es Banano, es Plátano Roatán Thai: th en eponyms en Banana cultivars French thumb|Une trentaine de bananes Gros Michel sur une table (About thirty Big Mikes on a table) Alternative forms fr Grosse Michel<ll:very,rare> Etymology fr. This name for the cultivar is attested from the late 19th century in French West Indies Caribbean usage. Prior to that (since 1835), it was known as fr Poyo, after Jean François Pouyat, the botanist who imported it to Jamaica, whence it spread throughout the rest of the Caribbean. Its first-ever common name was fr Figue Baudin Baudin Banana, in the early 19th century, from fr ht fig banana spelled as fr figue in French + Nicolas Baudin (Nicolas) Baudin, a French naturalist and explorer who first brought those bananas to the region. The fr gros big part of the name stems from the banana's size and thickness, giving it an almost masculine “build”; the other part—considering how the former names came from real persons involved in the trading of Big Mikes—might as well have been named after a Frenchman called Michel, who might have been a merchant, importer or grower of this variety. Pronunciation fr Noun mf<ll:rare> # Gros Michel Gros Michel fr Figue Baudin Poyo<qq:obsolete former names> fr banane Usage notes It is much more common to refer to this term in the masculine gender (fr le fr Gros Michel etc.) than in the feminine (fr la fr Gros Michel), which is as rare as the feminized form fr Grosse Michel (fr grosse being the feminine form of fr gros).le Gros Michel,la Gros Michel,Grosse Michel Gros Michel 1800 2022 yes fr That duality arises from the use of a male name (Michel) for a grammatically feminine word (fr banane). This noun, being invariable (that is, having no plural), is often used attributively with fr banane, resulting in fr banane(s) Gros Michel. One can therefore say either fr un bouquet de Gros Michel a bunch of Big Mikes or fr un bouquet de bananes Gros Michel a bunch of Big Mike bananas. Descendants en Gros Michel<bor:1> Big Mike<clq:1> References