plantain vs common plantain

common plantain vs plantain

plantain and common plantain both are nouns.

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

As nouns, common plantain is a hyponym of plantain; that is, common plantain 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
common plantain: common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed

Other hyponyms of plantain include buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, 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)	common plantain (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed
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 common plantain

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