noun
cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
• Syn: ↑family Plantaginaceae, ↑plantain family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Plantaginales, ↑order Plantaginales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Plantago, ↑genus Plantago
Useful english dictionary. 2012.