How many syllables in plantain?

There are 2 syllables in the word plantain.

Divide plantain into syllables:

plantain (noun):: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics.; any of a genus (plantago of the family plantaginaceae, the plantain family) of herbs with basal rosettes of usually lanceolate or elliptical leaves and spikes of minute greenish flowers

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