aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities | starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics |
a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests | 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 |