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plantain   (TTS Sound)

The noun plantain has 3 senses

• plantain -- (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)


• plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca -- (a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics)


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