Plantain
WordNet
noun
(1) Starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
(2) A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
(3) 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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Etymology 1
From , from , from , because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.
Noun
- 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.
Etymology 2
From , from .