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Definition of Plantains
1. plantain [n] - See also: plantain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plantains
Literary usage of Plantains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"It is of a moderately hot temperature, and greatly abounding in sugar-canes,
cotton, maize, умея«, and plantains ; has many mills and looms, in which they ..."
2. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... for plantains—Loss of my boy Saburi in the forest—We wonder what has become
of the ... plantains ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"Its food, during confine- oiled rice, mixed up with soft eggs, together with
plantains, insects of the grasshopper tribe ; these insects, when thrown e bird ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"made from corn or plantains (bananas), in which both sexes constantly indulged,
despite the protests and warnings of the missionaries. ..."
5. The Creole Cookery Book (1885)
"FRIED plantains. The plantains should be perfectly ripe and yellow all over. ...
Have ready a frying pan filled with boiling lard ; put in the plantains and ..."
6. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"It is of a moderately hot temperature, and greatly abounding in sugar-canes,
cotton, maize, умея«, and plantains ; has many mills and looms, in which they ..."
7. In Darkest Africa: Or, The Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"... for plantains—Loss of my boy Saburi in the forest—We wonder what has become
of the ... plantains ..."
8. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"Its food, during confine- oiled rice, mixed up with soft eggs, together with
plantains, insects of the grasshopper tribe ; these insects, when thrown e bird ..."
9. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"made from corn or plantains (bananas), in which both sexes constantly indulged,
despite the protests and warnings of the missionaries. ..."
10. The Creole Cookery Book (1885)
"FRIED plantains. The plantains should be perfectly ripe and yellow all over. ...
Have ready a frying pan filled with boiling lard ; put in the plantains and ..."
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