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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various plantains of the genus Plantago, especially P. lanceolata.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See plantain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass, ripple grass, ribwort plantain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun ribgrass; Old World plantain.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

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rib +‎ wort

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