On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Plantain. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as herb or banana and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Plantain meaning
Any plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
Synonyms of Plantain
Using Plantain
- The main meaning on this page is: Any plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
- Useful related words include: herb, herbaceous plant, plantain tree, musa paradisiaca.
- In the example corpus, plantain often appears in combinations such as: plantain leaves, fried plantain, plantain is.
Context around Plantain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plantain
- In this selection, "plantain" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fried, eating, main, leaves, shoot and plant stand out and add context to how "plantain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a staple plantain called matooke and and fried plantain from cameroon. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plantain" sits close to words such as ade, admirably and alf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plantain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fried plantain with eggs and beef sauces. (7 words)
And I did a sweet potato plantain. (7 words)
Under Buhari, people could eat bread, rice, beans, and plantain. (10 words)
To check how my pockets could be, I spoke to a woman about 20 years younger than I am who roasted and sold corn and plantain for sale by the road side near the entrance gate of the housing estate where I lived. (43 words)
Mari’s most artistic, aesthetically charming, and assertive work yet, is a poem for the ages; even recollecting the shot of a shattered Sivanaindhan running through a plantain plantation leaves you with a lump in your throat. (37 words)
Other plants Greenberg thought I might notice, but I did not, were Culver’s root, flowering spurge, butterfly weed, Illinois tick-trefoil, prairie Indian plantain (I probably overlooked it) and false white indigo. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
De amount of bread and plantain that does disappear from de kitchen cause de hospital to increase de amount of bread and plantain it does buy.
Recent studies have shown that eating plantain is very good for the heart because plantain has been shown to contain some amount of serotonin.
Plantain leaves main Plantain leaves can exceed two meters in length.
Plantain shoot After harvesting the fruit, the plantain plant can be cut and the layers peeled (like an onion) to get a cylinder -shaped soft shoot.
For her part, Tchunete shared a dish of chicken and fried plantain from Cameroon with her classmates.
Fried plantain with eggs and beef sauces.
Not far away is Safari Foods Family Restaurant, offering a blend of Indian and Ugandan fare including a staple plantain called matooke, butter chicken, samosas and chapati, a type of flatbread.
Other plants Greenberg thought I might notice, but I did not, were Culver’s root, flowering spurge, butterfly weed, Illinois tick-trefoil, prairie Indian plantain (I probably overlooked it) and false white indigo.
Some of what we foraged in Dundee: wild garlic, plantain, garlic mustard, beech leaves, ground elder, rose petals, cleavers, lime leaves, ivy leaved toadflax and nettles.
Along with that there was a portion of egusi soup, pounded yam (or fufu for the acquainted), chicken, grilled corn, fries, plantain, puff puff (a sweet deep fried dough) and tomato soup.
Broadleaf plantain, with its thick, veined leaves, hugs the ground as if to avoid attention.
His Cuban specialities include frijoles negros (black bean stew) arroz con girs (rice and peas) as well as Cuban tortillas and a delicious range of sides including sweet potato, cassava and plantain fries.
Mari’s most artistic, aesthetically charming, and assertive work yet, is a poem for the ages; even recollecting the shot of a shattered Sivanaindhan running through a plantain plantation leaves you with a lump in your throat.
More than 70 per cent of the Tsimane diet consists of high-fibre carbohydrate including rice, plantain, manioc, corn, nuts and fruits.
To check how my pockets could be, I spoke to a woman about 20 years younger than I am who roasted and sold corn and plantain for sale by the road side near the entrance gate of the housing estate where I lived.
Under Buhari, people could eat bread, rice, beans, and plantain.
Fufu is made from raw cassava and green plantain cooked together after peeling the back.
Speaking shortly after the signing ceremony, the Commissioner for Agriculture, David Alagoa, said the MoU has four areas of focus – fisheries, rice production, plantain, and cassava.
And I did a sweet potato plantain.
Even now ocumo, yuca, ñame, plantain, topocho, and fruits are always available in the markets, and they are produced in terrible conditions.
Common combinations with plantain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- plantain leaves 7×
- fried plantain 7×
- plantain is 6×
- plantain chips 6×
- and plantain 5×
- the plantain 4×
- plantain and 4×
- plantain has 3×
- of plantain 3×
- ripe plantain 3×