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plantain
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[ˈplanteɪn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a low-growing plant that typically has a rosette of leaves and a slender green flower spike, widely growing as a weed in lawns
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin plantago, plantagin-, from planta ‘sole of the foot’ (because of its broad prostrate leaves)
[ˈplanteɪn], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a banana containing high levels of starch and little sugar, which is harvested green and widely used as a cooked vegetable in the tropics
- the plant which bears the plantain
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Origin
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mid 16th century: from Spanish plá(n)tano, probably by assimilation of a South American word to the Spanish plá(n)tano ‘plane tree’
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