plantain vs ribwort

ribwort vs plantain

plantain and ribwort both are nouns.

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

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

Other hyponyms of plantain include buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, 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)	ribwort (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	an Old World plantain with long narrow ribbed leaves widely established in temperate regions
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 ribwort

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