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plantain noun1. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin plantagin-, plantago, from planta sole of the foot, from its broad prostrate leaves.]
Any of various low-growing plants constituting the genus Plantago (family Plantaginaceae), with dense cylindrical spikes of inconspicuous flowers and leaves in a basal rosette usu. pressed closely to the ground; esp. (a) (in full greater plantain) P. major, with long tapering spikes and broadly ovate leaves, (b) = RIBWORT plantain. Also (with specifying word), any of various plants resembling the plantain, esp. in their broad leaves.
Indian plantain, rattlesnake plantain, rose plantain, water plantain, etc.
Comb.: plantain lily = HOSTA.