Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In countries settled by the Spanish, the common name of the banana and plantain (Musa paradisiaca and M. sapientum). In Porto Rico the name is especially applied to the starchy plantains, which must be cooked before they can be eaten, the sweet bananas being called
guinéos .
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Examples
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The fruit of the third kind of platano, the _Platano Largo_, is from six to eight inches long, rather narrow, and curved crescent-wise.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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'platano', as it resembled one of their trees named as plane tree!
unknown title 2009
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Yucca, arracacha, potato and platano all together, repeated and with rice added to the main dish and desert.
Around the Colombian family’s kitchen table « Unknowing 2010
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It comes with rice and avocado on the side, and maybe platano sometimes.
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Mashed plantains with pork rinds: Machuca de platano con chicharrones by
Mashed plantains with pork rinds: Machuca de platano con chicharrones 2008
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Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano: Mexican Recipe
Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano 2008
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Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano by
Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano 2008
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Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano by
Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano 2008
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Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano: Mexican Recipe
Plantain empanadas with picadillo: Empanadas de platano 2008
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Mashed plantains with pork rinds: Machuca de platano con chicharrones: Mexican Recipe
Mashed plantains with pork rinds: Machuca de platano con chicharrones 2008
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