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# ribwort

«ribwort» in Mova's school dictionary: **A common wild plant with long narrow leaves that have…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ribwort, ribworts — also «ribwort plantain»)

### meaning for a pupil

A common wild plant with long narrow leaves that have strong lines (ribs) and a dark brown flower head on a tall stalk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In nature walks and science lessons in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand it is a common lawn and roadside weed. Children play a game called «soldiers» or «conkers with plantains», flicking the heads off each other's stalks. Phrases: «ribwort plantain».

### examples

- Ribwort grows in the field behind the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x1)
- We played soldiers with ribwort stalks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x2)
- The leaves of ribwort have long lines like ribs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x3)
- Ribwort plantain is a food plant for some caterpillars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x4)
- Count how many ribwort plants are in the quadrat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x5)
- Ribwort flowers have tiny white stamens round the head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/#x6)

### note

Countable or uncountable. «-wort» is an old word for plant (also in «St John's wort»). Not the same as the «plantain» fruit, which is like a banana — a trap.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ribwort» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ribwort/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.