musa ensete

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musa ensete - 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]

musa ensete - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]