Musa
Musa
Mu"sa\, n.; pl. Mus[ae]. [NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linn[ae]us, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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| musa | |
noun | |
| type genus of the Musaceae: bananas |
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