large-bracted plantain

noun

variants or largebracted plantain

: a plantain (Plantago aristata) that has narrow leaves and spikes of small whitish flowers each having a conspicuous long narrow bract and that is native to the midwestern U.S. but is widely naturalized as a weed

called also bracted plantain, buckhorn

Word History

First Known Use

1898, in the meaning defined above

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