单词 | plantain |
释义 | plantain (once / 3497 pages) n WORD FAMILY plantain: plantains USAGE EXAMPLESOn the table sat a mix of “American” holiday food, plus such Cuban dishes as croquetas, roasted pork, black beans and rice and plantains. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Many stores are empty, closed or selling cruelly expensive toys, Christmas trees, and holiday treats like "hallacas," a cornmeal dish wrapped in plantain leaves. Reuters(Dec 20, 2016) The 64-year-old property owner prefers tamales wrapped in plantain leaves, like the kind he ate in his native Guatemala nearly 40 years ago. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1n a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics Syn|Hyper Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree 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 2n starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics Hyper veg, vegetable, veggie edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant 3n 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 Hypo|Hyper English plantain, Plantago lanceolata, buckthorn, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions Plantago major, broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, common plantain, white-man's foot, whiteman's footcommon European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed Plantago media, hoary plantainwidely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers Plantago psyllium, Spanish psyllium, fleawort, psylliumplantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative Plantago rugelii, broad-leaved plantain, rugel's plantainNorth American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves Plantago virginica, hoary plantainNorth American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests |
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