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MUSA ACUMINATA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Musa acuminata mean?
• MUSA ACUMINATA (noun)
The noun MUSA ACUMINATA has 1 sense:
1. low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
Familiarity information: MUSA ACUMINATA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
dwarf banana; Musa acuminata
Hypernyms ("Musa acuminata" is a kind of...):
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)
Meronyms (parts of "Musa acuminata"):
banana (elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh)
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