Musa
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- noun
- /ˈmuːzə/
- Specialized
- In the tropics, Musa species like bananas and plantains are often used in local dishes.
Examples
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Farmers in many countries cultivate Musa plants for their nutritional value and economic importance.
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The Musa genus includes various species that yield delicious bananas.
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This musa have been Edenia.
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They musa have followed us.
Compounds
- Specialized
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A low-growing Asian banana plant grown for clusters of edible yellow fruit
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A rocky mountain on Morocco's north coast opposite the Rock of Gibraltar, seen as one of the Pillars of Hercules
- Specialized
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A banana plant that can live in cool weather and is grown for its tropical leaves rather than its fruit
- Specialized
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A banana plant that grows in warm places and produces starchy fruits you can cook
- Specialized
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A banana plant from the Philippines with strong leaf stalks used to make rope and paper
- Specialized
A large African plant like a banana whose fruit people do not eat but whose young shoots people eat
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Musa comes from an old Arabic and Persian word mauz or mūz, which means 'banana'. So scientists used Musa as the name for the group of plants that includes bananas and plantains.