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Webster 1913 Edition


Musaceous

Mu-sa′ceous

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Adj.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus
Musa
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Definition 2024


musaceous

musaceous

English

Adjective

musaceous (comparative more musaceous, superlative most musaceous)

  1. Pertaining to a banana or plantain.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
      Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising