Adjacent Words
Mud crabMud dab
mud dauber
Mud devil
mud digger
Mud drum
Mud eel
mud flap
mud flat
Mud frog
mud hen
Mud lark
mud midget
Mud minnow
mud pie
Mud plug
mud puddle
mud puppy
Mud scow
mud shad
mud stain
Mud terrapin
Mud tortoise
mud turtle
Mud wasp
mud-beplastered
mud-brick
mud-slinging
mud-turtle
mud-wrestle
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms [syn: water star grass, mud plantain, Heteranthera dubia]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Plantain Plan"tain, n. [F., fr. L. plantago. Cf. Plant.] (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world. Indian plantain. (Bot.) See under Indian. Mud plantain, a homely North American aquatic plant (Heteranthera reniformis), having broad, reniform leaves. Rattlesnake plantain, an orchidaceous plant (Goodyera pubescens), with the leaves blotched and spotted with white. Ribwort plantain. See Ribwort. Robin's plantain, the Erigeron bellidifolium, a common daisylike plant of North America. Water plantain, a plant of the genus Alisma, having acrid leaves, and formerly regarded as a specific against hydrophobia. --Loudon.
