plantain - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

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

Synonyms

• plantain

More generic

• veg
• vegetable
• veggie

Related

• Musa paradisiaca
• plantain
• plantain tree

Noun

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

Synonyms

• Musa paradisiaca
• plantain
• plantain tree

More generic

• banana
• banana tree

Related

• plantain

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

Synonyms

• plantain

More generic

• herb
• herbaceous plant

More specific

• English plantain
• Plantago lanceolata
• Plantago major
• Plantago media
• Plantago psyllium
• Plantago rugelii
• Plantago virginica
• Spanish psyllium
• broad-leaved plantain
• buckthorn
• cart-track plant
• common plantain
• fleawort
• hoary plantain
• narrow-leaved plantain
• psyllium
• ribgrass
• ribwort
• ripple-grass
• rugel's plantain
• white-man's foot
• whiteman's foot

Related

• Plantago
• genus Plantago

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