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order Musales

order Musales

9.3
A group of tropical flowering plants that includes bananas and plantains
  • noun
  • /ˈɔrdər ˈmjuːseɪlz/
  • Archaic
: orden Musales
  • The order Musales includes important food crops like bananas and plantains.

Examples

  • Studies of the order Musales reveal a diverse range of fruit-bearing plants.

  • Botanists classify these tropical species under the order Musales.

  • The order Musales includes many tropical plants.

  • Did you know that the order Musales consists of bananas?

  • Botanists classify these tropical species under the order Musales.

  • The order Musales includes important food crops like bananas and plantains.

  • Studies of the order Musales reveal a diverse range of fruit-bearing plants.

Synonyms

Musales
vsorder Musales
  • Specialized
9.9

A group of tropical flowering plants that includes bananas and plantains

is the same meaning but writes the word order before the name

Surface Forms

order Musales singular
order Musales plural

Morphology

order + Musales

This is a compositional noun phrase combining the taxonomic noun 'order' with the taxon name 'Musales', so the meaning (a taxonomic order that includes bananas and related plants) directly follows from the constituents. Taxonomic naming conventions are cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both words would be able to infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Order Musales comes from the banana name Musa and the ending -ales, used to name groups of related plants. So it means a 'group' of tropical flowering plants that includes bananas and their relatives.