plantain

Noun

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

• a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  plantain tree , Musa paradisiaca