musaceous

American  

[myoo-zey-shuhs] / myuˈzeɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. belonging to the banana family (Musaceae) of mostly tropical treelike plants.

2. of or relating to the fruit of the tropical treelike plants of the banana family, especially bananas and plantains.

   I decided to be brave and try the “musaceous salad,” but it was just a bowl of sliced bananas!

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musaceous British  

/ mjuːˈzeɪʃəs /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Musaceae, a family of tropical flowering plants having large leaves and clusters of elongated berry fruits: includes the banana, edible plantain, and Manila hemp

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Etymology

Origin of musaceous

First recorded in 1850–55; from New Latin Musace(ae), family name Mus(a), genus name, from Arabic mawzah “banana,” perhaps from Sanskrit mocaḥ + -aceae -aceae + -ous; see also banana family ( def. )

Example Sentences

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon Pirate Prentice's flat fills with "the fragile, musaceous odour of Breakfast, permeating, suprising, more than the color of winter sunlight".

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2010

A botanist would not readily guess that the thick wood covering this valley is formed by the assemblage of a plant of the musaceous family.*

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina