plantain

1. 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 (synset 112619587)
   is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
   subtypes:

   • buckthorn, english plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass - an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
   • broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, common plantain, plantago major, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot - common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
   • hoary plantain, plantago media - widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers
   • fleawort, plantago psyllium, psyllium, spanish psyllium - plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
   • broad-leaved plantain, plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain - North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves
   • hoary plantain, plantago virginica - North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
   belongs to: genus plantago, plantago - type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs
2. A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits;
   Tropics and subtropics (synset 112373507)
   is a type of: 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
   has: plantain - starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
   same as: musa paradisiaca, plantain tree
3. Starchy banana-like fruit;
   Eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics (synset 107784399)
   is a type of: veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
   is a part of: musa paradisiaca, plantain, plantain tree - a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

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