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Plantain has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

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Noun
1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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.

5

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

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
herb banana vegetable
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
English plantain broad-leaved plantain hoary plantain fleawort rugel's plantain
Rhyming Words
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