Plantain (disambiguation)

Plantain may refer to:

Plants and fruits

The term plantain can refer to plants in three different families of flowering plants:

• within Musaceae: Two groups of banana cultivars of the genus Musa whose fruits are normally eaten after cooking rather than raw:
  • Cooking banana
  • True plantains
• the family Plantaginaceae
  • in particular the genus Plantago
• within Platanaceae: the genus Platanus of trees often known in English as planes

Other uses

• Plantain Garden River, in Jamaica
• Plantain River, a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in L'Île-d'Anticosti, Quebec, Canada
• James Plaintain (fl. 1720–1728), a pirate active in the Indian Ocean
• Plantain mosa, a Nigerian snack which is a component of small chops

See also

• Banana (disambiguation)
• Fried plantain, a dish made from plantains
• List of banana cultivars
• Hosta, or plantain lily