PLANTAIN TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics

Synonyms:

Musa paradisiaca; plantain; plantain tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("plantain tree" is a kind of...):

banana; banana tree (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)

Meronyms (parts of "plantain tree"):

plantain (starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics)

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