Plantain

(noun.) starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics.

(noun.) a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics.

(noun.) 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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• There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• If she had been Mrs. Mango herself, of the great house of Mango, Plantain, and Co. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Before each hut a woman presided over a boiling stew, while little cakes of plantain, and cassava puddings were to be seen on every hand. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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