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Musa sapientum
Musa Mu"sa, n.; pl. Mus[ae]. [NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (M. paradisiaca of Linn[ae]us, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.
Musa sapientum
Banana Ba*na"na, n. [Sp. banana, name of the fruit.] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa. Note: The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple color; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of food. Banana bird (Zo["o]l.), a small American bird (Icterus leucopteryx), which feeds on the banana. Banana quit (Zo["o]l.), a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.

Meaning of Sapientum from wikipedia

- cooking and as dessert bananas. Linnaeus's name for dessert bananas, Musa sapientum, is thus a synonym of Musa × paradisiaca. Almost all cultivated plantains...
- cultivar was once the plant referred to as Musa sapientum. It has since been discovered that Musa sapientum is a hybrid cultivar of the wild seeded bananas...
- Anaximenes of Miletus, featured in the collection Illustrium philosophorum, et sapientum effigies ab eorum numismatibus extractae. This engraving, like others...
- 'Red' Musa sapientum L. f. rubra Bail. Musa sapientum L. var. rubra (Firm.) Baker Musa rubra Wall. ex Kurz. Musa × paradisiaca L. ssp. sapientum (L.) ****ze...
- placed bananas into two species based only on their uses as food: Musa sapientum for dessert bananas and Musa paradisiaca for plantains. More species names...
- species and its hybrids mistaken for different species (notably Musa sapientum by Linnaeus which is now known to be a hybrid of M. a****inata and Musa...
- ISBN 978-0-471-31014-3. Davies, Peter N. (1 January 1990). Fyffes and the Banana: Musa Sapientum : a Centenary History, 1888-1988. Athlone Press. pp. 23–51. ISBN 978-0-485-11382-2...
- Pleosporaceae Genus: Drechslera Species: D. musae-sapientium Binomial name Drechslera musae-sapientium (Hansf.) M.B. Ellis [as "musae-sapientum"], (1971)...
- Linnaean name). The 1753 name Musa paradisiaca L. for plantains and Musa sapientum L. for dessert bananas are now known to refer to hybrids, rather than...
- reproduced the method in The Anarchist Cookbook in 1970, under the name "Musa sapientum Bananadine" (referring to the banana's old binomial nomenclature). In...