BANANA

n. Ban-a’’na’, Fr., banane (the fruit), bananier (the plant). Ger., Banane (the fruit), Bananasfeige (the plant). It., fico d’Amado. Sp., banana, banano, bananas. The Musa sapientium, also its fruit. Pre 885; ae brandy. A liquid distilled from b’s. [‘‘Proc. of the Am, Pharm. A oc.,” xxvii, p. 145 (B).|—B. e ence. An alcoholic solution of amyl acetate and Fr., Gen., bam’matos (-tis). butyric ether. [A, 308.]—B. flour. The b. fruit dried and powdered; said to contain 66 per cent. of b. starch. [* Proc. of the Am. Pharm. A oc,,” xxvii, p. 145 (B).]—B’sfeige (Ger.). See Musa sapientium.—B. starch. Ger., Bananenstdrke. The starch of the b. fruit (fruit of Musa paradisiac a). It is frequently of a reddish color, and the separate granules are from 20 to 40 ‘in. in diameter, flattened, ovate, clavate, or sausage-shaped, provided with markedly excentric nucleus, and marked with fine but distinct, cuneiform str iæ. [B, 270.]