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Insect burrowing into unvariegated banana
Answer for the clue "Insect burrowing into unvariegated banana ", 8 letters:
plantain
Alternative clues for the word plantain
- Staple food often made into chips
- Tropics and subtropics
- Insect tucked into ordinary banana
- Green banana
- Worker perhaps tucked into basic, staple food
- Eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
- Mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers
Word definitions for plantain in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plantain \Plan"tain\, n. [Cf. F. plantain-arbre, plantanier, Sp. pl['a]ntano, pl['a]tano; prob. same word as plane tree.] (Bot.) A treelike perennial herb ( Musa paradisiaca ) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"banana," 1550s, plantan , from Spanish plátano , plántano , probably from Carib palatana "banana" (Arawak pratane ), and altered by association with Spanish plátano "plane tree," from Medieval Latin plantanus "plane tree," itself altered (by association ...
Usage examples of plantain.
He twittered a bit and then prescribed pulverized avocado seed and crushed plantain in raw, unfermented maguey juice.
Along with them were plantains, starchy large bananas, and misshapen tomatoes with horny skins.
Winding picturesquely among the trees, well-worn trails led to the Goat-House, to the western slope where Williams lived, to the Aute Valley where the principal gardens of the cloth-plant had been laid out, to the yam and sweet-potato patches and plantain walks, to the rock cisterns Christian had insisted on building in case of drought, to the Rope, and to the saw pit, still used occasionally when someone was in need of plank.
Like so many works of man in Boca Grande the Jockey Club is less than it seems: an aluminum-sided bungalow with rattan card tables and a menu written in French but translated in the kitchen into ambiguous gumbos based mainly on plantains and rice.
The native men were employed as occasion demanded, and during the early months of the settlement it was they who did the fishing for the community and searched for the wild products of the island -- plantains, taro, candlenuts for lighting purposes, and the like.
Arctic bramble, the sloe, goat-weed, Mexican goosefoot, speedwell, wild geranium, veronica, wormwood, juniper, saffron, carduus benedictus, trefoil, wood-sorrel, pepper, mace, scurry grass, plantain, and betony.
At Dry River, a higgler had sold them mangoes and plantains and a necklace of mudfish and god-dammies, salt-dried and fried crisp, but all that now remained were fruit skins and fish tails.
The virtues of the greater Plantain as an application to wounds and sores were known of old.
And Minarii had brought a cluster of green drinking coconuts and a bunch of fine plantains he had found in the depths of the valley.
Smith wandered away into the bush and was back before long, with a cluster of drinking coconuts and a broad leaf of the plantain, to serve as a cloth for their rustic meal.
Prudence now took some eggs and half a dozen plantains from a basket hanging out of reach of rats, and dropped them into the boiling water.
Taurua went to the outdoor kitchen, returning with some cold baked yams and plantains, which she placed on the table.
He was followed by Te Moa, who carried a bunch of ripe plantains on his back.
The children now returned, bringing drinking nuts and a dozen great yellow plantains in a wooden bowl, together with other fruits which were strange to the mate.
As they were about to seat themselves at the table, a woman of forty or forty-five came in through the back door, bearing a large platter containing baked pig and heaped up with sweet potatoes, yams, and plantains, all smoking hot.