enset

English

enset (countable and uncountable, plural ensets)

Alternative spelling of ensete.
- 1843, [Karl Wilhelm Isenberg; Johann Ludwig Krapf], James Macqueen, chapter III, in Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, Missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, Detailing Their Proceedings in the Kingdom of Shoa, and Journeys in Other Parts of Abyssinia, in the Years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. To which is Prefixed, a Geographical Memoir of Abyssinia and South-eastern Africa, by James M‘Queen, Esq. Grounded on the Missionaries’ Journals, and the Expedition of the Pacha of Egypt up the Nile, London: Seely, Burnside, and Seely, Fleet Street, London, →OCLC, page 79:
  On the way I saw, for the first time, Enset, a nice plant, which is described in [James] Bruce's Travels. The Abyssinians use it in baking bread, which is wrapped in it, and gives to it a particular scent, which I do not like.