Definitions
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plantāgō, from planta (“sole of the foot”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat; to spread”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.
Used in a sentence
“The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.”
“The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.”
“We were sitting at the tables in the port, eating an unhurried breakfast of delicious mojarra fish from the swamp and slices of fried green plantain, when my mother resumed the offensive in her personal war.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Starchy cooking banana”8 letters
02“Starchy banana relative”8 letters
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