n. Any of various plants of the genus Plantago, having a basal rosette of leaves and dense spikes of small greenish flowers. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin plantāgō, plantāgin-, from planta, sole of the foot (from its broad leaves); see plat- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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n. 1. Any of several varieties of banana, especially Musa ×paradisiaca, having edible, starchy, elongated fruit. 2. The fruit of this plant, usually eaten cooked. |
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