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Ribwort

noun
1.
An Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions.  Synonyms: buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ripple-grass.





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... the pocket, success in love being indicated in proportion as they lost or retained their freshness. Browne alludes to the primrose, which "maidens as a true-love in their bosoms place;" and in the North of England the kemps or spikes of the ribwort plantain are used as love-charms. The mode of procedure as practised in Northamptonshire is thus picturesquely given by ...
— The Folk-lore of Plants • T. F. Thiselton-Dyer


Words linked to "Ribwort" :   plantain


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