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Webster 1913 Edition

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rop.

Noun.

;

pl.

Musae

(#)

[NL., fr. Ar.

mauz

mauza

, banana.]

(Bot.)

A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (

Musa sapientum

), the plantain (

Musa paradisiaca

of Linnaeus, 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

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