Canna vs Plantain - What's the difference?
canna | plantain |
Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
* 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:
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(Scotland, Jamaica) Contraction of can not; cannot.
* 1966 -- Star Trek: )
A plant of the genus Plantago , with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm 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.
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 225:
*2003 , (Michael Hofmann), translating Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel , Penguin 2004, p. 41:
*:The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains .
A plant in the genus Musa , the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.
As nouns the difference between canna and plantain
is that canna is any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers while plantain is a plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm 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.As a verb canna
is contraction of can not; cannot.canna
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia canna) From (etyl) . (Canna)Noun
(en noun)- A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.
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Etymology 2
Verb
(en-cont)- Scotty: I canna' change the laws of physics.
Etymology 3
(etyl)plantain
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) plainteine et al., (etyl) plaintain, from (etyl) , because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.Noun
(en noun)- The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.
