Plantain

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Raw and dried green bananas, plantain flour, resistant flour, prebiotic food, gut health
Related Terms:
Categories: Medicinal Plant
Plantain (Wiktionary)

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈplant(e)ɪn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈplæntɪn/, IPA(key): /ˈplæn.teɪn/

Etymology 1

From Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plantāginem (“plantain”), accusative of plantāgō, from planta (“sole”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *plat (“flat; to spread

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