Plantain is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLANTAIN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• any of various low-growing plants constituting the genus Plantago
• a low-growing plant which typically has a rosette of leaves and a slender green flower spike, occurring widely as a weed of lawns.
• a banana containing high levels of starch and little sugar, which is harvested green and widely used as a cooked vegetable in the tropics.
• the plant which bears the plantain.
• low-growing wild plant with broad leaves
• A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
• Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
• 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
• a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
• starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a short-stemmed herb

Words related to PLANTAIN

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Words that contain PLANTAIN

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How to use PLANTAIN in a sentence

• The dreadful plantain seems to thrive anywhere and everywhere, and on bare spots where grass cannot live he immediately appears.
• Banana and plantain trees were burdened with great bunches of ripening fruit.
• The Plantain Garden River, a small stream, winds through the midst of the valley lengthwise, emptying into the sea.
• When my recollection returned, I was stretched on some fresh plantain leaves, in a low, smoky hut, with my faithful dog lying beside me, whining and licking my hands and face.
• In the old world the cultivation of the banana and the plantain goes back, no doubt, to a most immemorial antiquity.
• Paha, the chief of the district, now came with a plantain tree, and a sucking pig, which he would have presented to me as a peace-offering.
• Below him the ground fell away steeply to a small and fertile valley with a river running down its midst, and fields of paddy and plantain lining the course of the stream.
• When Nekhludoff came out of the gate he met the girl with the long earrings on the well-trodden path that lay across the pasture ground, overgrown with dock and plantain leaves.
• All hands soon forgot poor Gayny, for they came across a plantain walk in a clearing, and made a good breakfast, and stripped it of every fruit.
• The virtues of the greater Plantain as an application to wounds and sores were known of old.
• Amongst these, the plantain, the palm, and the cocoa-nut tree, were seen flourishing in great abundance, and the aspect of the country strikingly resembled some parts of Yariba.
• In this conservatory also are the banana and plantain.
• The plantain grove which surrounds their houses, and the coffee tree which grows almost without cultivation, afford them a frugal subsistence.
• Dependent for existence upon the produce of the chase, the seal and the whale are to them what the cocoa-nut tree and the plantain are to the savages of more genial climates.
• He saw that all was empty and vain alike! with no dependence! like the plantain or the bubble.
• We disarmed them and brought them in, doing all we could for their comfort with blue clay and bruised plantain.
• The older writers on the colony of Guiana, as Hartsinck, Bellin and others, consider the plantain to be a native.
• No fruit is so easily cultivated as are the varieties of the plantain.
• To the negroes in the West Indian Islands the plantain is invaluable, and, like bread to the Europeans, is with them denominated the staff of life.
• A large stock of the plantain can always be secured, without fear of its being injured by keeping.
• This plantain abounds on the continent of Spanish America and between the tropics, where the natives cultivate it as producing the most nutricious fruit of its kind.
• In 1848 Manila rope, or plantain fibre of good quality, was worth L38 per ton.

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