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PLANTAIN FAMILY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does plantain family mean?
• PLANTAIN FAMILY (noun)
The noun PLANTAIN FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
Familiarity information: PLANTAIN FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae; plantain family
Hypernyms ("plantain family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "plantain family"):
genus Plantago; Plantago (type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs)
Holonyms ("plantain family" is a member of...):
order Plantaginales; Plantaginales (coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae)
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