plantain

• If it looks like a banana but is treated like a potato, it must be a plantain -- a staple of Central American food which pops up all over in Dominican cooking. —  Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide
• Our crew put all their food, consisting of rice, plantain, and salt beef, into one large pot, and boiled them together. —  The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
• Some even seemed to listen with pleasure to the notes of the Kandyan flute which the natives played near them; and though at first they would not eat, at length when some juicy stems of the plantain were offered them, they could not resist the temptation of the luscious morsels. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
• Of these the water-plantain (_Alisma_), a plant with long-stalked, oval, ribbed leaves, and a much-branched panicle of small, white flowers, is very common in marshes and ditches, and the various species of arrowhead (_Sagittaria_) are among the most characteristic of our marsh plants. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• 11 Water-plantain, 167 Water-shield, 190 Water-starwort, 200 Wax-plant, 220 Wheat, 78 Wheat rust, 78, 81; Fig. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses

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