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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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | herb, herbaceous plant | ||
| 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 | ||
| Member meronym | genus Plantago, Plantago | ||
| 2. | plantain (plant) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | ||
| Synonyms | Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | banana, banana tree | ||
| Part holonym | plantain | ||
| 3. | plantain (food) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | veg, vegetable, veggie | ||
| Part meronym | Musa paradisiaca, plantain, plantain tree | ||
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