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n. Any of various plants of the genus Plantago that produce dense spikes of small greenish flowers, especially either of two Eurasian weeds, P. major or P. lanceolata. Also called ribwort.

n. A large, tropical, treelike herb (Musa paradisiaca) of southeast Asia, resembling the banana and bearing similar fruit.

n. The fruit of this plant, used as a staple food in tropical regions.

n. A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.

n. A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.

n. The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

n. A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See musa.

n. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.

n. Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the Plantago major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

n. A plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, the common or greater plantain.

n. A tropical plant, Musa paradisaca or its fruit.

n. Plantago aristata, a species with very narrow leaves and long narrow bracts, native mostly west of the Mississippi but now a common weed eastward from Maine to Georgia.

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

n. a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

n. 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

"The skin of the plantain is dried and then roasted in a clay oven in order to achieve a particular color, texture and smell."

plantain eater   

veg    veggie    vegetable    banana    banana tree   

Robin's plantain    bastard plantain    lance-leafed plantain    native plantain    rattlesnake-plantain    bracted    indian plantain    manila plantain    banana   

banana plantain    bocadillo plantain    cooking plantain   

Musa   

Canton    Danton    Scranton    Stanton    canton    manton    panton    santon   

cocoa-nut    banana    yam    mango    breadfruit    taro    cocoanut    dandelion    pineapple    pandanus