Cavendish

Meanings

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

1. The most commonly sold banana; one of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.
2. Alternative form of cavendish (“type of tobacco”).

1. Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.

Etymology

* (English village): "Cāfna's enclosure", from Old English personal name *Cāfna + edisċ (“pasture”); 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.