plantain vs buckthorn

buckthorn vs plantain

plantain and buckthorn both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plantain	Yes	No	No	No
buckthorn	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, buckthorn is a hyponym of plantain; that is, buckthorn 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
buckthorn: an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

Other hyponyms of plantain include 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, Plantago virginica.

plantain (noun)	buckthorn (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics	a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments
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	an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions

Difference between plantain and buckthorn

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