plantain
English
Noun
- starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
- a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
- any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
Samples
Falam
Noun
- banhla phunkhat
Hakha
Noun
- Banhla a ngan phu.
Matu
Noun
- dingki phunkhat
Mizo
Noun
- balhla, changêl