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Webster 1913 Edition
Musa
‖
Mu′sa
,p
; 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 Banana
and Plantain
.