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PLANTAIN FAMILY

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(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

family Plantaginaceae; Plantaginaceae; plantain family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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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