A banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics.
1One of the most important trees in the West Indies is the plantain tree.
2The world is like a plantain tree, without enduring strength.
3He trembles as a plantain tree tossed up by tempest.
4Do you know what the plantain tree is, the tree, with the big sprawling leaves?
5There is a fine plantain tree.
6The leaves of the plantain tree supplied the want of table-linen; and calbassia shells, split in two, served for utensils.
7Vaishampayana said, Beholding Duryodhana, Gandhari, deprived of her senses by grief, suddenly fell down on the earth like an uprooted plantain tree.
8The priests, placing a plantain tree in front of the king, resumed their praying, each having his bunch of feathers in his hand.
9Trembling like a plantain tree shaken by the wind, the princess Krishna, arrived at the presence of Yudhishthira, fell down, afflicted by grief.
10It was beneath a huge plantain tree in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbor in the garden I have mentioned.
11All four returned in little more than an hour, and sat down under a wild plantain tree, not three feet from Frank's place of concealment.
12Banana and plantain trees were burdened with great bunches of ripening fruit.
13Banana or plantain trees provide water too, if you have a tool to cut one down.
14The plantain trees were getting their new skins.
15Plants, particularly water vines, and bamboo, banana, and plantain trees, can also be an excellent source of water.
16Maize grew in it, also other sorts of corn, while all round was a thick belt of plantain trees.
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