musaceous

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musaceous (myoo-ZAY-shuhs) - adj., of, pertaining to, or resembling a banana.


Or more precisely, pertaining to the family Musaceae of tropical treelike plants, which includes the bananas and plantains. The family name comes from the name of the genus that includes bananas, Musa, adapted from Arabic mawzah, banana, possibly from Sanskrit.


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