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PLANTAGO

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Meaning:

Type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs

Synonyms:

genus Plantago; Plantago

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Plantago" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Plantago"):

plantain (any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally)

Holonyms ("Plantago" is a member of...):

family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae; plantain family (cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds)

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