plantain tree

Questions about plantain tree

What is another word for plantain tree?

It depends which plantain tree you mean. In the sense “a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics”, the synonyms are plantain, Musa paradisiaca. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of plantain tree?

WordNet records no antonym for plantain tree. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for plantain tree come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of plantain tree

• Full entry for plantain treeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for plantain treeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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