plantainとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntɪn/, /ˈplæn.teɪn/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈplæntɪn/, /ˈplæn.teɪn/
• (Caribbean) IPA^(key): /ˈplɑːntɪn/, [ˈplaː(n)ʔn̩]

語源 1

From Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plantāgō, from planta (“sole of the foot”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“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 (4") 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, published 2007, page 225:

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

   • 2003, Ernst Jünger, Michael Hofmann, transl., Storm of Steel, Penguin, published 2004, page 41:

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

同意語

• waybread, fleawort

派生語

• African plantain (Plantago afra)
• American plantain (Plantago rugelii)
• Asian plantain (Plantago asiatica)
• bastard plantain
• blackseed plantain (Plantago rugelii)
• blond plantain
• bracted plantain (Plantago aristata)
• broadleaf plantain (Plantago major, Plantago rugelii)
• buck's horn plantain (Plantago coronopus)
• California plantain
• common plantain (Plantago major)
• cooking plantain
• depressed plantain (Plantago depressa)
• doronic plantain (Doronicum spp.)
• dwarf plantain
• English plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
• evergreen plantain (Plantago sempervirens)
• French plantain (Musa × paradisiaca vars.)
• greater plantain (Plantago major)
• hare-foot plantain, hartshorn plantain (Plantago lagopus)
• heart-leaf plantain (Plantago cordata)
• Heller's plantain (Plantago helleri)
• hoary plantain (Plantago media; Plantago virginica)
• Indian plantain (Arnoglossum spp.; Plantago ovata, Cacalia spp.)
• mud plantain (Heteranthera spp.)
• narrowleaf plantain, narrow-leaved plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
• pale plantain (Plantago rugelii)
• plantain goldenweed (Pyrrocoma uniflora)
• plantain lily (Hosta spp.)
• plantain signal grass (Urochloa plantaginea)
• plantain water
• poor Robin's plantain (Erigeron spp.; Hieracium venosum)
• rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera spp.)
• ribwort plantain (Plantago lanceolata)
• Robin's plantain (Erigeron spp.; Hieracium venosum)
• Rugel's plantain (Plantago rugelii)
• sand plantain (Plantago arenaria)
• sea plantain, seaside plantain (Plantago maritima)
• true plantain (Musa × paradisiaca vars.)
• Virginia plantain (Plantago virginica)
• water plantain (Alisma spp.; Baldellia spp.; Sagittaria secundifolia)
• wild plantain (Heliconia spp.)
• woolly plantain (Plantago patagonica)
• Wright's plantain (Plantago wrightiana)

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”).

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 (Platanus spp.)

参照

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

アナグラム

• plainant