Audio English.net » Dictionary » M » Murkily ... Muscovite

MUSA PARADISIACA

Dictionary entry overview: What does Musa paradisiaca mean?

• MUSA PARADISIACA (noun)
The noun MUSA PARADISIACA has 1 sense:

1. a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

Familiarity information: MUSA PARADISIACA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MUSA PARADISIACA (noun)

Sense 1

Musa paradisiaca ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Musa paradisiaca; plantain tree; plantain

Hypernyms ("Musa paradisiaca" 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 paradisiaca"):

plantain (starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics)

Learn English with... Proverbs of the week

"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." (English proverb)

"Someone else's pain is easy to carry" (Breton proverb)

"Life is made of two days. One which is sweet and the other is bitter." (Arabic proverb)

"Dress up a stick and it’ll be a beautiful bride." (Egyptian proverb)

Related FAQs:

» MUSA

Page delivered in 0.026 seconds