plantainとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈplant(e)ɪn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntɪn/, IPA^(key): /ˈplæn.teɪn/

語源 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”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.

名詞

plantain (複数形 plantains)

1. A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 225:

     The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.

   • 2003, Michael Hofmann, translating Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, Penguin 2004, p. 41:

     The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.

同意語

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派生語

• common plantain
• greater plantain
• mud plantain
• ribwort plantain
• robin's plantain
• water plantain

参照

• Plantago on Wikipedia.
• Plantago on Wikispecies.
• Plantago on Wikimedia Commons.

語源 2

From Spanish plantano, obsolete variant of plátano, from Galibi Carib platana (“banana”).

plantain (Musa) fruit slices frying

名詞

plantain (複数形 plantains)

1. A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
2. The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plantain.

関連する語

• banana plantain
• bocadillo plantain
• cooking plantain
• plantain cutter
• plantain eater (Musophagidae)
• plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
• plantain tree

参照

• plantain on Wikipedia.
• Musa on Wikispecies.
• Musa on Wikimedia Commons.
• banana

アナグラム

• plainant