plantain : Idioms & Phrases

• noun North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves
  Plantago rugelii; broad-leaved plantain.
  
• noun common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
  whiteman's foot; Plantago major; cart-track plant; white-man's foot; broad-leaved plantain.
  

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• noun common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
  whiteman's foot; Plantago major; cart-track plant; white-man's foot; broad-leaved plantain.
  

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• noun an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
  English plantain; ribwort; ripple-grass; buckthorn; Plantago lanceolata; ribgrass.
  

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• (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); called also duck's-horn. Booth.

Webster 1913

• noun North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
  Plantago virginica.
  
• noun widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers
  Plantago media.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Cacalia having leaves resembling those of plantain
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods. Gray.

Webster 1913

• noun grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms
  Heteranthera dubia; water star grass.
  

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• a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves.

Webster 1913

• noun an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
  English plantain; ribwort; ripple-grass; buckthorn; Plantago lanceolata; ribgrass.
  

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• noun a variety of water plantain
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagidæ, especially Musophaga violacea. See Turaco. They are allied to the cuckoos.

Webster 1913

• noun cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
  family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae.
  

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• noun any of numerous perennials having mounds of sumptuous broad ribbed leaves and clusters of white, blue, or lilac flowers; used as ground cover
  day lily.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a Java squirrel (Sciurus plantani) which feeds upon plantains.

Webster 1913

• noun a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
  plantain; Musa paradisiaca.
  

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• (Bot.), the treelike herb Musa paradisiaca. See def. 1 (above).

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• noun a variety of pussytoes
  

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• noun any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme
  helleborine.
  

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• an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white.

Webster 1913

• noun a variety of water plantain
  

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• . See Ribwort.

Webster 1913

• noun common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays
  Erigeron pulchellus.
  

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• the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America.

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• noun North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves
  Plantago rugelii; broad-leaved plantain.
  

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• noun marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves
  Alisma plantago-aquatica.
  

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• a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. Loudon.

Webster 1913

• noun perennial or annual aquatic or marsh plants
  Alismataceae; family Alismataceae.
  

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• (Bot.), an arborescent endogenous herb (Heliconia Bihai), much resembling the banana. Its leaves and leaf sheaths are much used in the West Indies as coverings for packages of merchandise.

Webster 1913