plantain vs Plantago media

Plantago media vs plantain

plantain and Plantago media both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plantain	Yes	No	No	No
Plantago media	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Plantago media is a hyponym of plantain; that is, Plantago media is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plantain:

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
Plantago media: widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers

Other hyponyms of plantain include buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, common plantain, Plantago major, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot, hoary plantain, fleawort, Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain, hoary plantain, Plantago virginica.

plantain (noun)	Plantago media (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	widely distributed Old World perennial naturalized in North America having finely hairy leaves and inconspicuous white fragrant flowers
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
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

Difference between plantain and Plantago media

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