plantain tree

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plantain tree - a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropicsMusa paradisiaca, plantainplantain - starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropicsbanana, 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