| musa | Origin: NL, fr. Ar. Mauz, mauza, banana. <botany> A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. Paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. Textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| musaceous | Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| musang | <zoology> A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |