plantain vs Plantago virginica

Plantago virginica vs plantain

plantain and Plantago virginica both are nouns.

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

As nouns, Plantago virginica is a hyponym of plantain; that is, Plantago virginica 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 virginica: North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves

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, Plantago media, fleawort, Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain, hoary plantain.

plantain (noun)	Plantago virginica (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
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 virginica

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