‖prop. n.;
‖prop. n.;
prop. n. A natural family of treelike tropical Asian herbs including the banana tree.
a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus
a. Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n. An order of tropical plants.
n. (Zool.) A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also
n. An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F., fr. muser to loiter, trifle. See Muse, v. i. ] A dreamer; an absent-minded person. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖prop. n.;
☞ Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus
Muscae volitantes [ L., flying flies. ] (Med.)