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Musales

noun

tropical plants

• Syn: ↑order Musales

• Hypernyms: ↑plant order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Commelinidae, ↑subclass Commelinidae

• Member Meronyms:

↑Cannaceae, ↑family Cannaceae, ↑Marantaceae, ↑family Marantaceae, ↑arrowroot family, ↑Musaceae, ↑family Musaceae, ↑banana family, ↑Strelitziaceae, ↑family Strelitziaceae, ↑strelitzia family, ↑Zingiberaceae, ↑family Zingiberaceae, ↑ginger family

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\\myüˈzā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Musa + -ales

: an order of monocotyledonous tropical plants characterized by the cyclic flowers often with irregular perianth and one or more of the stamens suppressed

Useful english dictionary. 2012.