What is "plantains"

Usage examples of "plantains".

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.

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.

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.

It was a stiff climb and she had a carrying pole, with a bunch of plantains at one end and a basket of shellfish on the other.

Along with them were plantains, starchy large bananas, and misshapen tomatoes with horny skins.

I straightway fell to picturing myself seated beneath a cocoanut tree on the brow of the mountain, with a cluster of plantains within easy reach, criticizing her nautical evolutions as she was working her way out of the harbour.