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Noun: plantain family
  1. Cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds
    - Plantaginaceae, family Plantaginaceae

Derived forms: plantain families

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Plantaginales, Plantaginales

Encyclopedia: Plantain family