Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of or relating to the Musaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa.
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- adjective Pertaining to a
banana orplantain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She rapped the deck with the same musaceous digit she had employed to shush you.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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Melting, they will perfume the neighborhood like one giant Harry Belafonte belch, and a certain little rascal, no more able to resist the musaceous nose-music than any model-building boy, will tarantella, yellow-lipped and sticky-furred, into your waiting trap.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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He had the look of a midlevel academic, perhaps one of those literary moles who compound their pallor in stuffy rooms, stroking the musaceous nuances of E.M. Forster; or else the editor of an urban weekly newspaper that fills its pages with wine-shop and gallery advertisements and earnest evaluation of the anal-retentive sawings of European string quartets.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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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.
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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.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Zinjanthropus, for example, combines the Arabic zinj (East Africa) and a Latinized form of Creek anthropos (man), while musaceous is constructed from the Arabic mawzah 'banana,' the Latin scientific particle - aceae, and the English adjectival suffixous.
qms commented on the word musaceous
A blender is most efficacious
At rendering foodstuff pultaceous
You'll whip up a doozy
Of banana smoothy
With yogurt and fruit that's musaceous.
April 29, 2017