plantain

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for plantain.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

There are many varieties of plantain (it's hard) and many varieties of bananas that are hard to ship.

Examples15

Definitions3

Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of plantain gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

Any plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") 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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plantain.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

Example sentences

There are many varieties of plantain (it's hard) and many varieties of bananas that are hard to ship.

Australia gets two of the three in supermarkets and sugar bananas and plantain are in street markets.

Plantago major, European plantain, is thought to be one of the first species brought to America by the European migration.

February’s Friday entrees, are vegan veggie tacos, Mediterranean chickpeas and black bean and plantain rice bowls.

Also affected are the important plantain cultivars that feed some 400 million people, as well as numerous cooking and dessert cultivars.

There are places which have both plantain and gros michel but in very limited supply.

If it looks like a banana, shaped like a banana, feels like a banana, it’s probably a banana (or a plantain).

If you live by nettle you’ll should learn to identify plantago (plantain) and yarrow.

The claim that plantain is making is that people actually choosing balcony solar panels is a symptom of a similar failure of coordination.

To my knowledge, some varieties of plantain are already resistant.

It's promising that you're already Plantain Profitable.

This feels more like a banana/plantain scenario.

Quote examples

“vegan veggie tacos, Mediterranean chickpeas and black bean and plantain rice bowls.” Idk sounds good to me.

So far my only previous snacking habit that seems to be "legal" in the new context is plantain chips, I'm not sure if it's really allowed, but I don't care, I'm not changing it.

It's coming at it fresh, and even if it had output "a" on the basis that "banana" was a likely continuation, it could just as well decide on "plantain" given the new context.