Cavendish

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English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046). [1]
  3. A number of places in Canada:
    1. A locality in Alberta.
    2. A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
    3. A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
    4. A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
  4. An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
  5. A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
  6. A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.

Derived terms

Noun

Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)

  1. (countable) The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
    Synonyms: Chinese banana, dwarf banana
    • 2018, Chris Fitch, Globalography: Our Interconnected World revealed in 50 Maps, page 10:
      Crucially, almost the entirety of exported bananas are Cavendishes.
  2. (uncountable) Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”)

References

  1. ^ Parish map (Suffolk)

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