starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics | common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed |
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics | North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves |
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 | |