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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: marsh plant having clusters of small white or pinkish flowers and broad pointed or rounded leaves [syn: water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1538 any of a genus (Alisma of the family Alismataceae, the water-plantain family) of marsh or aquatic herbs with acrid sap and scapose 3-petaled flowers

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Water plantain Wa"ter plan"tain (Bot.) A kind of plant with acrid leaves. See under 2d Plantain.

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.