NOUN | plant | plantain tree, plantain, Musa paradisiaca | a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits |
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Meaning | A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics. | |
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Synonyms | plantain, Musa paradisiaca | |
Parts | plantain | starchy banana-like fruit |
Broader | banana, banana tree | Any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits |
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