Plantain

Plantain may refer to:

Plants and fruits

 * Cooking banana, banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking
 * True plantains, a group of cultivars of the genus Musa
 * Plantaginaceae, a family of flowering plants known as plantains
 * Plantago, a genus of Plantaginaceae
 * Platanus, a genus of trees formerly known as plantains

Other uses

 * Plantain Garden River, in Jamaica
 * Plantain River, a tributary of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in L'Île-d'Anticosti, Quebec, Canada
 * James Plaintain (fl. 1720–1728), a pirate active in the Indian Ocean
 * Plantain mosa, a Nigerian snack which is a component of small chops