Plantain vs Musaceous - What's the difference?
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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.
Pertaining to a banana or plantain.
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon),
As a noun 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 or plantain can be a plant in the genus musa , the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.As a adjective musaceous is
pertaining to a banana or plantain.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.
Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* * * * water plantainSee also
* (Plantago) * (Plantago) * (Plantago)Etymology 2
From (etyl) plantano, obsolete variant of .Noun
(en noun)See also
* (wikipedia "plantain") * (Musa) * bananaQuotations
* (English Citations of "plantain") ----musaceous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night’s old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising