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• One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.”2018, Remmi Smith, The Healthy Teen Cookbook: Around the World In 80 Fantastic Recipes. From the entry dodo
• The plantain lorry caught up with them in a blind curve.2003, John C. Kennedy, “The Child”, in Last Lorry to Mbordo: Misadventures in Nation Building: A Novel, Victoria, B.C.: Trafford…. From the entry lorry
• An hour later we were stuffed with smoked fish, grilled maize-on-the-cob, barbecued beef, fried plantains, and Fanta.1996, Neil Peart, “People on the Bus”, in The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press…. From the entry Fanta
• She craves guatita, a dish of cow tripe in a sauce thickened by peanut butter that she serves over plantains.2009 February 11, Leslie Kaufman, “For Dinner (and Fast), the Taste of Home”, in New York Times. From the entry guatita
• Ampesi, intensely flavored stews or soups, are eaten with fufu, a firm, starchy dumpling made from plantains or cocoyam.2007 March 30, “Street Level”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry cocoyam
• The very name of the plantain, uatu, the upright fruit, testified to the dignity of the eldest of the gods.1995, Johannes Carl Andersen, Myths and Legends of the Polynesians, Dover Publications, published 1928, page 378. From the entry Tangaroa
• All can find a stall selling something familiar – and maybe something new to try, whether it’s yams or plantain, dhania or jellied eels.2015 July 10, “Saving our city centres, one local market at a time”, in The Guardian. From the entry dhania
• Here we are soupifying the blend by adding vegetable stock, as well as coconut milk and plantains, two favorite ingredients in the tropics.2013, Mark Reinfeld, The 30-Minute Vegan: Soup's On!. From the entry soupify
• On both visits, the ubiquitous fried green plantain rounds (tostones) were heavy and almost too thick when hot, then became pucklike when cool.2009 September 27, Karla Cook, “Robust Flavors and Happy Music”, in New York Times. From the entry pucklike
• Mongrels all ribcage and droopy jowl barked at his passage; but no one stirred inside the low huts among plots of quequisque and plantain.1996, Liston Pope, Living Like the Saints: A Novel of Nicaragua, page 188. From the entry quequisque
• It is sometimes used as sugar substitute in the preparation ofboodoo (baked corn dough) or kakro (fried corn dough mixed with red plantain).1990, Daniel K. Abbiw, Useful plants of Ghana: West African uses of wild and cultivated plants, →ISBN. From the entry kakro
• He replanted 15 heart-leaved plantains in different spots, using local ecotypes obtained from Milwaukee, the better to ensure their adaptability to the site's miniclimate.1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry miniclimate
• I know I want one more satisfying starch, and I’m debating between Yewande Komolafe’s plantains with beans and Von Diaz’s yuca coated in a warm, garlicky mojo.2021 November 8, Tejal Rao, “Sidesgiving”, in The New York Times. From the entry mojo
• Among the very many varieties of banana and plantain only the plantain belonged to Tangaroa on account of its redness and the uprightness of its fruit.1995, Johannes Carl Andersen, Myths and Legends of the Polynesians, Dover Publications, published 1928, page 378. From the entry Tangaroa

Meaning of plantain

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

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Questions about plantain in a sentence

How do you use plantain in a sentence?

Plantain is used as a noun. For example: “The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.”

What is a short sentence with plantain?

“One popular Nigerian dish is fried plantain, which is called “dodo.””

What does plantain mean?

Plantain means any 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.