Plantain

Word PLANTAIN
Character 8
Hyphenation plan tain
Pronunciations /ˈplant(e)ɪn/

Definitions and meanings of "Plantain"

What do we mean by plantain?

A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.

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The word "plantain" in example sentences

Love your combination, the fried plantain is a perfect touch. anna maria on March 14th, 2010 at 9: 34 pm ❋ Unknown (2010)

The skin of the plantain is dried and then roasted in a clay oven in order to achieve a particular color, texture and smell. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The sub-species _sapientum_ (formerly regarded as a distinct species _M. sapientum_) is the source of the fruits generally known in England as bananas, and eaten raw, while the name plantain is given to forms of the species itself _M. paradisiaca_, which require cooking. ❋ Various (N/A)

Actually, I think a plantain is a weird little banana... ❋ Unknown (2006)

The kind of banana called plantain is grown as a food crop in forest regions. ❋ Unknown (1977)

On this he feeds his family, for the plantain is the Puerto Rican peasant's bread. ❋ Marian M. George (N/A)

It is said that the specific name _paradisiaca_ is derived, either from a supposition that the plantain was the forbidden fruit of Eden [151], or from an Arabic legend that Adam and Eve made their first aprons of the leaves of this tree, which grow to a length of five to six feet, with a width of 12 to 14 inches. ❋ John Foreman (N/A)

_ -- "I am quite surprised that you did not see at once, they are only gigantic 'fighting cocks,' as we used to call plantain in our youth." ❋ Julia De Winton (N/A)

Indeed, I detected certain palms that I was morally certain were coconut palms, while, unless my eyes deceived me, I believed I could also descry foliage that strongly suggested the idea of plantain or banana trees. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)

The banana proper is eaten raw, as a fruit, and is allowed accordingly to ripen thoroughly before being picked for market; the plantain, which is the true food-stuff of all the equatorial region in both hemispheres, is gathered green and roasted as a vegetable, or, to use the more expressive West Indian negro phrase, as a bread-kind. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Even legend retains some trace of the extreme antiquity of the species as a cultivated fruit, for Adam and Eve are said to have reclined under the shadow of its branches, whence Linnæus gave to the sort known as the plantain the Latin name of _Musa paradisiaca_. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

The plantain is the native substitute for bread, but wheat flour is used by the mercantile and official classes; there is a steady demand for Baltimore and Richmond flour, which brands are supposed, probably with reason, to stand the climate better than flour manufactured elsewhere. ❋ James Henry Rochelle (1857)

Is a 'plantain' what we'd call a 'platano macho' down here (the ones used for frying)? ❋ Unknown (2005)

The other one is "plantain," which here in Polynesia refers to all the varieties of starchy bananas (Musa sp.) used in Caribbean (and other) cooking, but which in my childhood referred to a low-lying weed with a vertical seedy stem, Plantago sp. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In Sri Lanka, for example, this allows the cultivation of fruit trees such as plantain, which normally only grow in more humid areas. 17 The Hopi Native Americans of North America plant peach and apricot trees and melons on sandy hillsides where the heavier subsoil is kept moist by subsurface flow of water from nearby seeps and springs. 18 12.5 ❋ Unknown (1991)

"Our food staple is the plantain, which is shaped like a big chin ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

For this purpose "plantain" or coral-bean trees are planted between every second row; and these, quickly shooting up above the cacao-trees, afford the most luxuriant appearance to a plantation, their long bare stems being contrasted strongly with the rich green of the cacao below. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

They applied an Indian remedy, a peculiar kind of plantain, which relieved her, but she was years before she perfectly recovered from the effects of the poison. ❋ Egerton Ryerson (1842)

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