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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa;
[syn: Abyssinian banana, Ethiopian banana, Ensete ventricosum, Musa ensete]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Musa \Mu"sa\, prop. n.; pl. Musae. [NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (Musa paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (Musa Ensete), the Philippine Island (Musa textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Musa ensete n 1: large evergreen arborescent herb having huge paddle-shaped leaves and bearing inedible fruit that resemble bananas but edible young flower shoots; sometimes placed in genus Musa [syn: Abyssinian banana, Ethiopian banana, Ensete ventricosum, Musa ensete]