English
Detailed Synonyms for plantain in English
plantain:
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the plantain
– any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally 1 -
the plantain
– starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics 1 -
the plantain
– a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics 1the plantain; the Musa paradisiaca; the plantain tree– a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics 1