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    PLANTAIN FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    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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