plantaginaceae

English Thesaurus

1. cosmopolitan family of small herbs and a few shrubs; most are troublesome weeds (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot family, magnoliopsid family,
definition	:	family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus plantago, plantago,
definition	:	type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order plantaginales, plantaginales,
definition	:	coextensive with the family Plantaginaceae (noun.plant)