musaceous

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/mjuːˈseɪʃəs/

adjective

Pertaining to a banana or plantain.

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Meanings

adjectivemusaceous (comparative more musaceous, superlative most musaceous)

comparative more musaceous · superlative most musaceous

  1. Pertaining to a banana or plantain.

    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

    1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

Origin

From the family name Musaceae + -ous.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with musaceous

spacioustenaciousgraciousgaseouscretaceousherbaceousaudaciousefficaciousvoraciousvivaciousfallaciouscarbonaceoussebaceousvexatiousflirtatiouscurvaceousostentatioussalaciousrapaciouscapacioussagaciouspugnaciousloquaciousmendacious
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Cite this entry
APA

musaceous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/musaceous

MLA

“musaceous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/musaceous. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “musaceous,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/musaceous.

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