plantain
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈplænˌteɪn/
:
plátano
- Most Ibibio are agriculturists who grow yams, cassava, plantain, and maize.
- plantains and bananas
- plantains and yams
- plantains and cassava
Refried bean stuffed plantain dipped in chocolate.
- Refried bean stuffed plantain dipped in chocolate.
- For me it's really plantains, but like sweet and it's soft, you know what I mean?
- So think like, well, you'll see we've got some plantain chips.
- My absolute favorite meal to cook is oxtail rice and peas and fried plantain.
- OK, so for breakfast I will wake up and I will eat maybe one plantain, raw plantain, which people find weird, but it's very tasty.
Examples
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Most of the area, once in sugarcane, is now covered with bananas and plantains.
Academic text (1995) -
- I want to buy some plantain.
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OK, so for breakfast I will wake up and I will eat maybe one plantain, raw plantain, which people find weird, but it's very tasty.
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Their most reliable crop is plantain, but other crops are also grown.
Academic text (2013) -
Tell your mother that I'm coming to eat yam and plantain.
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Got some fresh plantain.
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So I got some plantains and guacamole and chips and ceviche.
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In Lamu, the streets were crowded and the street vendors were out, grilling plantains or curried goat over driftwood coals.
Fiction book (2001) -
For dinner, I made a delicious dish of fried plantain served with black beans.
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She bought a large plantain to prepare for a traditional Caribbean meal.
Synonyms
A tropical tree that grows large starchy fruits like bananas that are often cooked before eating
A banana plant that grows in warm places and produces starchy fruits you can cook
Compounds
A common wild plant with long narrow ribbed leaves that grows in lawns and roadsides
- US
A water plant that grows in shallow water with grass-like leaves and small yellow star-shaped flowers
- Specialized
A water plant with long narrow leaves that grows in shallow water
A North American wild plant with red leaf stalks and wide leaves that grows in wet places
A group of mostly small plants and a few shrubs, often including common lawn weeds
A plant that lives many years with broad ribbed leaves and pale flowers used as ground cover
A tropical tree that grows large starchy fruits like bananas that are often cooked before eating
A small North American plant with low grey-green leaves and small fluffy white flowers
- Specialized
A plant with broad leaves and small white or pink flowers that grows in wet places
- Specialized
A group of plants that live in wet places like ponds and marshes, often with broad leaves
How Starchy
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Plantain (the cooking banana) comes from Spanish and Portuguese plátano, a word linked to a root meaning 'broad' because the plant has very wide leaves; so plantain fits the large, starchy banana usually cooked rather than eaten raw.