Plantain2

n. 1 a kind of banana plant, grown for its fruit. 2 bananalike fruit of this. [Spanish] plantation ipla:n’teil(a)n, plmn/ n. 1 estate on which cotton, tobacco, etc. is cultivated. 2 area planted with trees etc. 3 hist. colony. [Latin: related to PLANT] planter n. 1 manager or owner of a plantation. 2 container for houseplants.