plantain vs hoary plantain

hoary plantain vs plantain

plantain and hoary plantain both are nouns.

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

As nouns, hoary plantain is a hyponym of plantain; that is, hoary 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
hoary plantain: 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, Plantago media, fleawort, Plantago psyllium, psyllium, Spanish psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain, Plantago virginica.

plantain (noun)	hoary plantain (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	North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves
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 hoary plantain

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