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ˈwater-ˌplantain
1. The plant Alisma Plantago, with leaves somewhat like those of the plantain, growing in ditches and by the river-side. Also as a name for the genus.
1538Elyot Dict. Add., Alisma,..water plantayne. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. lxvi. 96 Water Plantayne is a fayre herbe, with large greene leaues. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. xviii. (1794) 254 The Water Plantains... Great Water Plantain, Alisma Plantago. 1858A. Irvine Brit. Plants 291 Alisma, Linn. Water-Plantain... A. Plantago. Greater Water-Plantain. 1894J. Davidson Ballads & Songs 122 Water-plantain, rosy vagrant, Flings his garland on the wave.
2. Applied to other aquatic plants: see quots.
1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. Isl. 788 Water-plantain, Echinodorus cordifolius. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Plantain, Water Plantain of Jamaica, Pontederia azurea. |