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plantain, n.
(plantains)

starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
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plantain

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hypernym

vegetable, veggie, veg

part holonym

plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca

a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
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Musa paradisiaca plantain plantain tree

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part meronym

plantain

hypernym

banana, banana tree

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
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plantain

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hypernym

herb, herbaceous plant

member holonym

Plantago, genus Plantago

hyponym

English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, buckthorn, Plantago lanceolata broad-leaved plantain, common plantain, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot, cart-track plant, Plantago major hoary plantain, Plantago media fleawort, psyllium, Spanish psyllium, Plantago psyllium rugel's plantain, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii hoary plantain, Plantago virginica