‖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 ]

prop. n. A natural family of treelike tropical Asian herbs including the banana tree.
Syn. -- family Musaceae, banana family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An order of tropical plants.
Syn. -- order Musales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. muser to loiter, trifle. See Muse, v. i. ] A dreamer; an absent-minded person. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]