plantain lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics
• a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
• any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
• elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh
• A plant genus of the family Plantaginaceae, order Plantaginales, subclass Asteridae, class Magnoliopsida. The small plants usually have a dense tuft of basal leaves and long, leafless stalks bearing a terminal spike of small flowers. The seeds, known as PSYLLIUM, swell in water and are used as laxatives. The leaves have been used medicinally.;A plant family of order Plantaginales, subclass Asteridae, class Magnoliopsida, division Magnoliophyta. The Plantago genus is best known. Lesser known members include Hippuris, Littorella and Callitriche.