plantago

English Thesaurus

1. type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	plantain,
definition	:	any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family plantaginaceae, plantaginaceae, plantain family,
definition	:	cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds (noun.plant)