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ribwort
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ribwort has 1 sense
- ribwort(n = noun.plant) buckthorn, english plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ripple-grass - an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions; Array is a kind of plantain
CIDE DICTIONARY
ribwort, n.
A species of plantain (Plantago lanceolata ) with long, narrow, ribbed leaves; -- called also rib grass , ripple grass , ribwort plantain . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ribwort, n. a kind of plantain (see PLANTAIN(1)) with long narrow ribbed leaves.
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