English plantain — noun an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions • Syn: ↑narrow leaved plantain, ↑ribgrass, ↑ribwort, ↑ripple grass, ↑buckthorn, ↑Plantago lanceolata • Hypernyms: ↑plant … Useful english dictionary
English plantain — a common plantain weed, Plantago lanceolata, having narrow basal leaves and a dense head of small, whitish flowers. Also called ribgrass, ribwort. [1835 45, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
plantain — plantain1 /plan tin, tn/, n. 1. a tropical plant, Musa paradisiaca, of the banana family, resembling the banana. 2. its fruit, eaten cooked as a staple food in tropical regions. [1545 55; earlier pla(n)tan < Sp plá(n)tano plantain, also plane… … Universalium
Plantain — This article is about the fruit. For the small herb, see Plantago. Plantain Plantains being sold. Details Hybrid parentage … Wikipedia
plantain — Two entirely unrelated plants have the name plantain. Both get it from their broad leaves. One, an insignificant looking weed [14], comes via Old French plantain from Latin plantāgō, a derivative of planta ‘sole of the foot’ (source of English… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
plantain — Two entirely unrelated plants have the name plantain. Both get it from their broad leaves. One, an insignificant looking weed [14], comes via Old French plantain from Latin plantāgō, a derivative of planta ‘sole of the foot’ (source of English… … Word origins
plantain — I. /ˈplæntən/ (say plantuhn), / teɪn/ (say tayn) noun 1. a tropical herbaceous plant, Musa paradisiaca. 2. Also, plantain banana. its green skinned, banana like fruit, which, when cooked, is a staple food in many tropical regions. {Spanish… …
plantain — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin plantagin , plantago, from planta sole of the foot; from its broad leaves more at place Date: 13th century any of a genus (Plantago of the family Plantaginaceae, the plantain… … New Collegiate Dictionary
English cuisine — This article is part of a series on British cuisine … Wikipedia
buckhorn plantain — siauralapis gyslotis statusas T sritis vardynas apibrėžtis Gyslotinių šeimos pašarinis, vaistinis augalas (Plantago lanceolata), paplitęs šiaurės Afrikoje, Europoje ir Azijoje. atitikmenys: lot. Plantago lanceolata angl. buckhorn; buckhorn… … Lithuanian dictionary (lietuvių žodynas)
