plantain

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1. starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics (noun.food)

hypernym	:	veg, vegetable, veggie,
definition	:	edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant (noun.food)

part meronym	:	musa paradisiaca, plantain, plantain tree,
definition	:	a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics (noun.plant)

2. a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	banana, banana tree,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	plantain,
definition	:	starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics (noun.food)

3. 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 (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	herb, herbaceous plant,
definition	:	a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	buckthorn, english plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass,
definition	:	an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, common plantain, plantago major, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot,
definition	:	common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	hoary plantain, plantago media,
definition	:	widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	fleawort, plantago psyllium, psyllium, spanish psyllium,
definition	:	plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	broad-leaved plantain, plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain,
definition	:	North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves (noun.plant)

hyponym	:	hoary plantain, plantago virginica,
definition	:	North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus plantago, plantago,
definition	:	type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs (noun.plant)

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