Definitions
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- noun
ribwort ;Old World plantain .
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- noun an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
Etymologies
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rib + grass
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Examples
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And the _Slanugad_ (ribgrass) is very good: it will take away lumps.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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'Ane in ilka han', jist for the fun o ''t, he kneipit their heids thegither, as gin they hed been twa carldoddies (stalks of ribgrass).
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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