Cavendish
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]- (English village): Enclosure of a man named Cāfna + Old English edisc; recorded as Kauanadisc in 1086 (DB).
- (in Vermont): Likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire.
- (banana): Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in West Suffolk district, Suffolk, England, previously in St Edmundsbury district (OS grid ref TL8046). [1]
- A number of places in Canada:
- A locality in Alberta.
- A local service district in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
- A community, ward and former township in Trent Lakes, Peterborough County, Ontario.
- A rural community of Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
- An unincorporated community in Clearwater County, Idaho, United States.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Windsor County, Vermont, United States.
- A township in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]Cavendish (countable and uncountable, plural Cavendishes)
- (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.
- (uncountable) Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Cavendish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cavendish banana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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