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nouna banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
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nounany 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 medicinallytype of:
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nounstarchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropicspart of:
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banana vegetable herb veg veggie musa paradisiaca plantain tree banana tree herbaceous plant common plantain english plantain fleawort hoary plantain narrow-leaved plantain whiteman's foot broad-leaved plantain buckthorn cart-track plant plantago virginica psyllium ribgrass ribwort ripple-grass rugel's plantain spanish psyllium white-man's foot plantago lanceolata plantago major plantago media plantago psyllium plantago rugelii