plantain
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                    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
                
                    Noun
                    
                a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
                
                    Noun
                    
            starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
                More Specific Terms
                    broad-leaved plantain
                    buckthorn
                    cart-track plant
                    common plantain
                    English plantain
                    fleawort
                    hoary plantain
                    narrow-leaved plantain
                    Plantago lanceolata
                    Plantago major
                    Plantago media
                    Plantago psyllium
                    Plantago rugelii
                    Plantago virginica
                    psyllium
                    ribgrass
                    ribwort
                    ripple-grass
                    rugel''s plantain
                    Spanish psyllium
                    white-man''s foot
                    whiteman''s foot