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plátano — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • banana noun A long curved tropical fruit with soft flesh and a peelable yellow skin.
  • plane noun An aircraft; an airplane.
  • plantain noun A starchy, banana-like fruit that is usually cooked before eating, similar to a potato in culinary use.
  • sycamore noun A North American shade tree with mottled, flaking bark, or a related large maple grown in Europe.

Senses

plátano is used for these senses in English:

  • banana The tropical tree-like plant which bears clusters of bananas, a plant of the genus Musa (but sometimes also including plants from Ensete), which has large, elongated leaves. [from 1697]
  • plane (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
  • plantain The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.
  • sycamore (US) Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.

banana — full definition

  1. noun A long curved tropical fruit with soft flesh and a peelable yellow skin.
  2. noun The tall tropical plant that produces this fruit.

plane — full definition

  1. noun An aircraft; an airplane.
  2. noun A completely flat surface, especially in mathematics or physics.
  3. noun A tool used to shave thin layers off wood to smooth or shape it.
  4. adj Completely flat or level.

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