||Mu"sa (?), n.;
pl. Musæ (#). [NL., fr. Ar.
mauz, mauza, banana.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous,
endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca
of Linnæus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete),
the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.
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