A type of banana variety that is commonly eaten today, or a form of tobacco that is pressed into cakes.
Named after the Cavendish family, English nobles who were early European growers of tropical fruits in the 1600s. The banana variety became the standard commercial banana in the 20th century.
The Cavendish banana only became the world's most popular banana variety in the 1950s after the previous standard variety (Gros Michel) was wiped out by disease—and today's Cavendish bananas are all genetically identical clones, making them vulnerable to the same fate.
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