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plantain

36 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) plantain (noun)
  2. 2) plantain (noun)
  3. plantain eater (noun)
  4. plantain family (noun)
  5. plantain lily (noun)
  6. plantain shoreweed (noun)
  7. bastard plantain (noun)
  8. black plantain (noun)
  9. blue plantain-lily (noun)
  10. bracted plantain (noun)
  11. broad-leaved plantain (noun)
  12. dooryard plantain (noun)
  13. dwarf water plantain (noun)
  14. English plantain (noun)
  15. great indian plantain
  16. hoary plantain (noun)
  17. Indian plantain (noun)
  18. mud plantain (noun)
  19. narrow-leaved plantain (noun)
  20. pale plantain (noun)
  21. Poor Robin's plantain (noun)
  22. Pursh's plantain (noun)
  23. rattlesnake plantain (noun)
  24. robin's plantain (noun)
  25. rugel's plantain (noun)
  26. sea plantain (noun)
  27. seaside plantain (noun)
  28. water plantain (noun)
  29. water-plantain family (noun)
  30. water-plantain spearwort (noun)

1plan·tain

noun \ˈplan-tən\

Definition of PLANTAIN

: any of a genus (Plantago of the family Plantaginaceae, the plantain family) of herbs with basal rosettes of usually lanceolate or elliptical leaves and spikes of minute greenish flowers

Origin of PLANTAIN

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin plantagin-, plantago, from planta sole of the foot; from its broad leaves — more at place
First Known Use: 13th century

Rhymes with PLANTAIN

canton, Canton, Scranton

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