plantain
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(noun) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics |
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Related Words: vegetable, veggie |
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(noun) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics |
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Synonyms: Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree |
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Related Words: banana, banana tree |
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(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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Related Words: English plantain, Plantago lanceolata, Plantago major, Plantago media, Plantago psyllium, Plantago rugelii, Plantago virginica, Spanish psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, buckthorn, cart-track plant, common plantain, fleawort, herb, herbaceous plant, hoary plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, psyllium, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, rugel's plantain, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot |
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