PLANTAIN

• (noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

• (noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

  synonyms : musa paradisiaca , plantain tree

• (noun) 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

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