Definitions
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 alsorib 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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The undulating green expanse was studded with the black knobs of ribwort plantain and gemmed with buttercups, which here were dotted like sparks of fire, here massed in broad bunches and splashes of color.
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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Many home-grown substitutes were used in Revolutionary times for tea: ribwort was a favorite one; strawberry and currant leaves, sage, thorough-wort, and "Liberty Tea," made from the four-leaved loosestrife.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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The land here is of an excellent soil, and the climate is quite healthy; the soil being full of good herbs, as mints, calamint, plantain, ribwort, trefoil, scabious, and such like.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gra 2010
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Telegraph: Louise Gra 2010
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It collects nectar from cliff-top flowers and lays its eggs on ribwort plantain right on the edge
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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At the moment the most common top ten plants are: common nettle, cleavers, cow parsley, ribwort plantain, greater plantain, hawthorn, lesser celandine, bluebell, red clover and herb-robert.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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