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plantain
1[ plan-tin, -tn ]
noun
- a tropical plant, Musa paradisiaca, of the banana family, resembling the banana.
- its fruit, eaten cooked as a staple food in tropical regions.
plantain
2[ plan-tin, -tn ]
noun
- any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.
plantain
1/ ˈplæntɪn /
noun
- a large tropical musaceous plant, Musa paradisiaca
- the green-skinned banana-like fruit of this plant, eaten as a staple food in many tropical regions
plantain
2/ ˈplæntɪn /
noun
- any of various N temperate plants of the genus Plantago, esp P. major ( great plantain ), which has a rosette of broad leaves and a slender spike of small greenish flowers: family Plantaginaceae See also ribwort
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Example Sentences
Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice and garnish with a semi peeled baby plantain.
It is a simple Puerto Rican cow's milk cheese called queso de hoja and it is wrapped in a plantain leaf.
Add plantain slices and fry for 15 minutes but do not brown.
Crush a portion of the fried plantain slices and add the chopped turkey.
The plant from which is made what is called Manila hemp belongs to the same family as the banana and the plantain.
How, or when, or why the plant lost its old English names to take the Latin name of Plantain, it is hard to say.
But the Plantain did not long sustain its high reputation, which even in Shakespeare's time had become much diminished.
Alisma, al-iz′ma, n. a small genus of aquatic plants, the chief being the common water-plantain.
Though this plantain is inferior in quality to most of the others it affords great subsistence to the natives.
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