English noun: plantain |
1. | plantain (plant) 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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| Broader (hypernym) | herb, herbaceous plant |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | broad-leaved plantain, broad-leaved plantain, buckthorn, cart-track plant, common plantain, English plantain, fleawort, hoary plantain, hoary plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, Plantago major, Plantago media, Plantago psyllium, Plantago rugelii, Plantago virginica, psyllium, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, rugel's plantain, Spanish psyllium, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot |
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| Member meronym | genus Plantago, Plantago |
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2. | plantain (plant) 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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| Broader (hypernym) | banana, banana tree |
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| Part holonym | plantain |
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3. | plantain (food) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics |
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| Broader (hypernym) | veg, vegetable, veggie |
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| Part meronym | Musa paradisiaca, plantain, plantain tree |
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