Gros Michel

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From French banane Gros Michel.

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Gros Michel (plural Gros Michels)

  1. A triploid cultivar of banana, popular in the early 20th century, predominant in the marketplace, but wiped out as a commercial cultivar mid-20th century by Panama disease.

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