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plantain family

noun

cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds

• Syn: ↑Plantaginaceae, ↑family Plantaginaceae

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Plantaginales, ↑order Plantaginales

• Member Meronyms: ↑Plantago, ↑genus Plantago

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noun

Etymology: plantain (I)

: plantaginaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.