Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fleawort

1 sense of fleawort

Sense 1
fleawort, psyllium, Spanish psyllium, Plantago psyllium -- (plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative)
       => plantain -- (any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally)