名詞 plantain:

1. 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
2. a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
   同義詞：plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca
3. starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

1. A plantain is similar to a banana.
   大蕉類似于香蕉。

plantain

n.（名詞）
Any of various plants of the genusPlantago that produce dense spikes of small greenish flowers, especially either of two Eurasian weeds, P. major or P. lanceolata. Also called ribwort
車前草：一種車前草屬 植物，淡綠色小花有簇生的穗狀花序，尤指兩種歐亞大陸的野草 大車前草 或 矛尖狀車前草之一 也作 ribwort

來(lái)源：
Middle English
中古英語(yǔ)
from Old French
源自 古法語(yǔ)
from Latin plant3gô plant3gin-
源自 拉丁語(yǔ) plant3gô plant3gin-
from planta [sole of the foot (from its broad leaves)] * see plat-
源自 planta [根的底部（來(lái)自于它的闊葉）] *參見(jiàn) plat-

plantain
plantain 2

n.（名詞）
A large, tropical, treelike herb(Musa paradisiaca) of southeast Asia, resembling the banana and bearing similar fruit.
大蕉：一種熱帶類似樹的大型草本植物（巴蕉屬 粉芭蕉 ） ，產(chǎn)于亞洲東南部，形似于香蕉樹，結(jié)相似的果實(shí)
The fruit of this plant, used as a staple food in tropical regions.
大蕉：大蕉的果實(shí)，作為熱帶地區(qū)的主要食物

來(lái)源：
Spanish plátano, plántano [plane tree, plantain]
西班牙語(yǔ) plátano, plántano [懸鈴木屬喬木，大蕉]
from Latin platanus * see plane 4
源自 拉丁語(yǔ) platanus *參見(jiàn) plane4