|
|
plantain | starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | |
|
|
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 | |
|
|
plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca | a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics |