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plantain

noun

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

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Word length
8
Starts with
P
Ends with
N
Contains
LA
Scrabble score
10

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noun

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

noun

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

noun

  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

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