musaceous

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English

Etymology

From the family name Musaceae +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

Adjective

musaceous (comparative more musaceous, superlative most musaceous)

  1. Pertaining to a banana or plantain.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
      Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising