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Crossword-Solution: PLANTAIN 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Plantain n. A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical
regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called
plantains. See Musa.
Plantain n. The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat
cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered
with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple
article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
Plantain n. Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P.
major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender
spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near
the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

We have 38 clues for the answer “PLANTAIN”

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Relative of the banana 1 answer
Fruit resembling a banana 1 answer
Fruit sometimes fried 1 answer
Green banana 1 answer
Green banana-like fruit 1 answer
HAYA, staple crop of the 1 answer
NYAKYUSA, staple crop of the 1 answer
Oft-fried fruit 1 answer
Often-fried tropical fruit 1 answer
Fruit fried to make tostones 1 answer
Starchy fruit in mofongo 1 answer
Type of banana 1 answer
eaten as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics 1 answer
low-growing wild plant with broad leaves 1 answer
relative Banana oil, for one 1 answer
ribwort 1 answer
starchy banana-like fruit 1 answer
Coarse green-skinned banana 1 answer
Central American staple 1 answer
Banana's kin 1 answer
Banana's cousin 1 answer
Banana source 1 answer
Banana relative 1 answer
Banana kin 1 answer
Food staple in the tropics 2 answers
Cooking banana. 2 answers
Kind of banana. 2 answers
Banana plant 5 answers
Bananalike fruit. 5 answers
MELANESIA Islands staple food 5 answers
BANANA BUY 11 answers
BANANA ___ SONG, THE 11 answers
BANANA split 11 answers
A BANANA TREE BEARING HANGING CLUSTERS OF EDIBLE ANGULAR GREENISH STARCHY FRUITS 11 answers
BANANA ___ 26 answers
BANANA ALTERNATIVE 31 answers
Weed 38 answers
tropical fruit 38 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLANTAIN (5)

There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The ape-man traveled swiftly through the forest, and about noon came to the site of the village, but to his disappointment found that the jungle had overgrown the plantain fields and that the thatched huts had fallen in decay.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Beyond, and half way up the mouth o’ the cave, {35} The Bactrian convert, having his desire, Kept watch, and made pretence to graze a goat That gave us milk, on rags of various herb, Plantain and quitch, the rocks’ shade keeps alive: So that if any thief or soldier passed {40} (Because the persecution was aware), Yielding the goat up promptly with his life, Such man might pass on, joyful at a prize, Nor care to pry into the cool o’ the cave.
Introduction to Robert Browning Hiram Corson 2008
Corliss concluded his momentary pause by walking up the broken cement path, which was hard beset by plantain-weed and the long grass of the ill-kept lawn.
The Flirt Booth Tarkington 2004
Out of dung and horns Dropped in the mire he made a monstrous God, Abhorrent, shapeless, crowned with plantain tufts, And when the cattle lowed at twilight-time, He dreamed it was the clamour of lost crowds, And howled among the beasts: “_Thus Gods are made, And whoso makes them otherwise shall die._” Thereat the cattle bellowed.
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 2008

Quotes with PLANTAIN (2)

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!" That silenced him for a few moments. Then he said — very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!""I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf!" And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wall-Paper
Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it. That is all. We eat it.
Sherwood Anderson Death in the Woods and Other Stories
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).