narrow-leaved plantain

noun

: a plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with long narrow ribbed leaves tapering to a point at the ends that is native to Eurasia but is widely naturalized as a weed

called also buckhorn, English plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribgrass, ribwort

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