musa Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun type genus of the Musaceae: bananas
    genus Musa.

WordNet

Mu"sa noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.
Wordforms
plural Musæ
Definitions
  1. (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.

Webster 1913