Heywood wiped his sword-blade very carefully on a plantain leaf; then stood erect, to address them with a kind of cool severity.
The plantain is an instant and joyous answer to the sun.
The plantain jets upwards with a copious stem, and the fountain returns in broad rippled pennants, falling outwardly, refined to points, when the impulse is lost.
These are too sweet to be used as a staple diet, and the plantain is practically the only such diet which millions of the poorer people in the tropics ever get.
There is almost no native hut but has its plantain field.
We put up the first night at a tambo, or road-side inn, a bamboo hut of two stories, thatched with plantain leaves.
Among the trees were numbers of the broad-leaved plantain and banana, which had been planted to protect the young cacao trees from the heat of the sun.
We had formed a rough table, and the first article of food which Domingos placed on it was a portion of the big monkey on a plantain leaf.
After three years the plantain nearly ran out and Amaranthus albus entirely disappeared.
Seedlings of Jamestown weed were larger in the plantainbed than in their own.
Most of them appear to prefer a lime to an orange, a plantain to a banana, or a kola nut to a sweet mango, but in captivity they acquire a taste for sweet foods of all kinds.
At this point was attached a fresh plantain stalk and a nice bunch of the red fruit of the batuna.
The poor are driven to a "Kondukwe," a yard of plantain leaf, hollowed with a wire, and charged at the thicker end.
Ndá dwells in the woods and comes forth only by night bundled up in dry plantain leaves[FN#14] and treading on tall stilts; he precedes free adult males who parade the streets with dance and song.
There are grasses and some herbs, the plantain among them, which keep down very close but must throw up a tall stem to flower and seed.
We are satisfied that the plantain possesses valuable antiseptic and detergent properties.
An occasional tea-spoonful of the powdered plantain may be allowed with the food, which must be entirely vegetable.
The anniversary of the death, called agel, is celebrated by placing cooked rice on two plantain leaves placed over sacrificial twigs, and burning incense and waving lamps before it.
A plantain leaf is then placed in front of the bridal couple, and curry and rice served thereon by their mothers.
Two plantain leaves are placed on the spot, with a heap of boiled rice mixed with turmeric.
To each of its four bamboo posts are attached a plantain tree and a cocoanut, and it is decorated with bright flowers.
The cutting away of the plantain shows that their right to stand there is not recognised.
The mothers of the girls make lamps of plantain leaves, and float them on the water, and the boys are operated on by the local barber.
Cocoanuts, plantain fruits, and rice are offered, and sheep sacrificed.
At the burning-ground, the fire is extinguished, and the charred bones are collected, and placed on a plantain leaf.
Small heaps, consisting of boiled rice, paddy, a tender cocoanut, a sprig of areca flowers, and betel were placed on plantain leaves in seven definite spots.
He lays out a row of plantain leaves, and spreads on each leaf a little rice, on which plantains are laid.
On the first day, the deity Bharkodev, who is represented by seven quartz pebbles placed in a row on plantain leaves, is worshipped with offerings of fruit, etc.
These were accordingly dug, and decorated with festoons and plantain trunks at the four corners.
These are covered over with a plantain leaf, on which rice is sprinkled.
The ribs of the Plantain leaf; so called by children when drawn out so as to look like fiddle-strings (Great Estate, ch.
After he had thus disposed of all his plantain trees, he took several pieces of Cloth and spread them on the ground.
The Company had with them about a Dozen young Plantain Trees, and some other small Plants, these they laid down about 20 feet from Mr. Banks; the people then made a Lane between him and them.
This morning several of the Chiefs from the westward made us a Visit: they brought with them Emblems of Peace, which are Young Plantain Trees.
This is an herb of Venus, and excellent for the womb to strengthen and remedy all the cold griefs of it, as Plantain doth the hot.
At the top of every branch stand divers small, short scaly, or chaffy heads out of which come forth small whitish yellow threads, like to those of the Plantain herbs, which are the bloomings of flowers.
It is on account of this that the plantainhas in some districts got the name of the “Fire Grass.
Belcher’s Plantain Extractor and Turf Inoculator will be found a most efficient implement in extracting plantains, and preparing good turves to fill up the holes.
We have had before us samples of clover containing plantain as under:— 5.
Taking the broad-leaved plantain as the type of this list, we shall have no difficulty in estimating the amount of mischief which it does.
He knew what it was to wake from his noonday siesta and see the same great awful splash of sunlight striking the same old space of arid yard, where the empty tomato tin lay by the rotten plantain cast over by some nigger child.
Plantain leaves hit them insolently in the face, lianas hung across their path like green ropes placed to bar them out, weeds tangled the foot.
From the hands grew up plantain trees, from the teeth Indian corn, from other parts pari, &c.
In the rich and fertile delta of Surabáya, the whole produce of the adjacent country is conveyed by water carriage, generally on light rafts constructed of a few stems of the plantain tree.
Several species of písang or plantain yield the materials for ropes and cords of various fineness, according to the methods employed in preparing them.
Previous to the commencement of this performance, the Dálang, who is seated behind the curtain, arranges the different characters on each side of the curtain, by sticking them into a long plantain stem which is laid along the bottom.
Well, that was very nice--run along--I want to read my letter.
Carol and Ernest joined in the chorus of derision.
There was just daylight enough for us to see our way, and in a short time we came to a plantation, surrounded by virgin forest, covered with plantain and banana trees, most of which were bearing fruit in different stages of growth.
Gorillas were very plentiful near Nkongon-Boumba, and were committing great depredations among the plantain and banana trees; the patches of sugar-cane were also very much devastated.
The plantain, however, is the food of the country, and the hills surrounding Mokaba were covered withplantain groves.
At several of the natives' houses the entrance porch and windows were gaily adorned with plantain leaves.
And that one of mighty arms saw the monkey-chief in the plantain wood, on an elevated rocky base.
The bamboo, the reed, and the plantain bear fruit only to perish and not to grow in size any further.
O prince, do not for support embrace a plantain tree, not knowing its want of strength.
And that fathomless lake was, as it were, being fanned by the golden plantain trees on the coast, shaken by the soft breezes.
And amidst the goldenplantain trees, that one of exceeding effulgence was lying like unto a blazing fire, with his radiant body.
With the object that Bhima might not come by curse or defeat, by entering into the plantain wood, the ape Hanuman of huge body lay down amidst the plantain trees, being overcome with drowsiness.
And thus resting for support on her thighs resembling the trunk of an elephant, and which were in contract with each other, she suddenly dropped upon the ground, trembling like a plantain tree.
And at these words of her lord, that large-eyed damsel of thighs tapering as the stem of the plantaintree cast away her handsome and costly robes of fine texture.
On those sounds being heard the down of Bhima's body stood on end; and he began to range that plantain wood, in search of those sounds.
And that monkey of immeasurable effulgence stood there, covering the plantain grove furnished with trees, and elevating himself to the height reached by the Vindhya.
And then the long-armed one saw on the slopes of the Gandhamadana a beautiful plantain tree spreading over many a yojana.
Hearing these cruel words, that adorable girl suddenly fell down in great affliction of heart, like a plantain tree severed from its roots.
Lombardo next sat down to a fine plantain pudding.
A child led him by the hand, for he was blind, wearing a green plantain leaf over his plaited brow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plantain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berry; fruit; orange; weed
