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

1 sense of plantain tree

Sense 1
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)