plantain – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
plantain
n.
tropical plant related to the banana
Cooking plantain
A
plantain, or
cooking plantain, (, , ) is one of the less sweet cultivated varieties (
cultivars) of the genus
Musa whose fruit is also known as the
banana. Plantains are typically eaten cooked, sometimes along with their leaves and fibers, and are usually large, angular and starchy, in contrast to common or "dessert" bananas, which are typically eaten raw and without the peel, usually being smaller, more rounded and sugary; however, there is no formal scientific distinction between plantains and bananas.
plantain
Noun
1. 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
(hypernym) herb, herbaceous plant
(hyponym) English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, buckthorn, Plantago lanceolata
(member-holonym) Plantago, genus Plantago
2. a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
(synonym) plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca
(hypernym) banana, banana tree
3. starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
(hypernym) vegetable, veggie
(part-holonym) plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca
plantain
nm.
plantain, tropical plant related to the banana
plantain
n.
banán
