Definitions for plantain

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plantain plan·tain

Spelling: [plan-tin, -tn]

IPA: /ˈplæn tɪn, -tn/

Plantain is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in plantain (aailnnpt).

Definitions for plantain

noun

1. a tropical plant, Musa paradisiaca, of the banana family, resembling the banana.
2. its fruit, eaten cooked as a staple food in tropical regions.
3. any plant of the genus Plantago, especially P. major, a weed with large, spreading leaves close to the ground and long, slender spikes of small flowers.

Origin of plantain

1545-55; earlier pla(n)tan Spanish plá(n)tano plantain, also plane tree Medieval Latin pla(n)tanus, Latin platanus plane³

Examples for plantain

The soldiers said I was half-starved, and they gave me a plantain that they pulled by the road-side.

One of the most important trees in the West Indies is the plantain tree.

Thus Quonna is a buffalo, Abrootoo is a cornstalk, Abbradi a plantain.

A plantain is planted in the trench that was dug near the pyre.

All his movements could be observed by the party at the house, as he was on that side of the plantain.

Then one of the soldiers bade me eat my plantain; and I thought I must do as I was bid.

When life is extinct, the body is washed and covered with a plantain leaf.

It is a simple Puerto Rican cow's milk cheese called queso de hoja and it is wrapped in a plantain leaf.

The food is served on a plantain leaf or a bell-metal plate.

This land ceased to grow clover, and plantain and sorrel abounded.