musa acuminata

1. 1.

   low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit

   Synonymsdwarf banana

   Broaderbanana

   Partsbanana

Questions about musa acuminata

What does musa acuminata mean?

musa acuminata means "low-growing Asian banana tree cultivated especially in the West Indies for its clusters of edible yellow fruit".

What is another word for musa acuminata?

Close synonyms include dwarf banana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is musa acuminata a common word?

musa acuminata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.