Noun
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starchy banana-like fruit
eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
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a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits
tropics and subtropics
- plantain tree - musa paradisiaca -
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