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Musa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Musa has 1 sense
- musa(n = noun.plant) genus musa - type genus of the Musaceae: bananas; Array is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus
is a member of banana family, family musaceae, musaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
Musa, prop. n. [NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.].
A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum ), the plantain (Musa paradisiaca of Linnæus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (Musa Ensete ), the Philippine Island (Musa textilis , which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain. [1913 Webster]
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