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Definition of Musales
1. Noun. Tropical plants.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Commelinidae, Subclass Commelinidae
Member holonyms: Cannaceae, Family Cannaceae, Arrowroot Family, Family Marantaceae, Marantaceae, Banana Family, Family Musaceae, Musaceae, Family Strelitziaceae, Strelitzia Family, Strelitziaceae, Family Zingiberaceae, Ginger Family, Zingiberaceae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musales
Literary usage of Musales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China: Its Ancient and Modern by Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1836)
"Musales. The following are the representatives of the subordinate divisions of
this group in the Flora of China:— ..."
2. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"The engravings which he caused to be executed under his superintendence, more
particularly those of the bones and musales, are not only beautiful in ..."
3. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China: Its Ancient and Modern by Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon (1843)
"Musales. The following are the representatives of the subordinate divisions of
this group in the Flora of China:— ..."
4. The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature by Samuel Wells Williams (1907)
"The same group (Musales) to which the yam belongs furnishes the custard-apple,
one of the few fruits which have been introduced from abroad. ..."
5. Headache and Other Morbid Cephalic Sensations by Harry Campbell (1894)
"The third variety of ciliary weakness is a most important one ; it may be called
simply loss of tone, and is shared by the extrinsic musales of the eye also ..."
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