Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plantain

3 senses of plantain

Sense 1
plantain -- (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)
       => herb, herbaceous plant -- (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Sense 2
plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca -- (a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics)
       => banana, banana tree -- (any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits)

Sense 3
plantain -- (starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)