Plantain example sentences

plan·tain

noun

plantain (noun) · plantains (plural noun)

  - a low-growing plant that typically has a rosette of leaves and a slender green flower spike, widely growing as a weed in lawns.

plan·tain

noun

plantain (noun) · plantains (plural noun)

  - 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 that bears the plantain fruit.