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