plantain family

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plantain family - cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weedsfamily Plantaginaceae, Plantaginaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Plantaginales, Plantaginales - coextensive with the family Plantaginaceaegenus Plantago, Plantago - type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs