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

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

[ Syn: plantain tree , musa paradisiaca ]

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