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GENUS MUSA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Musaceae: bananas

Synonyms:

genus Musa; Musa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Musa" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Musa"):

banana; banana tree (any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits)

Holonyms ("genus Musa" is a member of...):

banana family; family Musaceae; Musaceae (treelike tropical Asian herbs)

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