banana vs plantain

plantain vs banana

banana and plantain both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
banana	Yes	No	No	No
plantain	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, plantain is a hyponym of banana; that is, plantain is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than banana:

banana: 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
plantain: a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

Other hyponyms of banana include dwarf banana, Musa acuminata, Japanese banana, Musa basjoo, Musa paradisiaca, plantain tree, edible banana, Musa paradisiaca sapientum, abaca, Manila hemp, Musa textilis.

banana (noun)	plantain (noun)
elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh	starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
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	a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
	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

Difference between banana and plantain

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