plantain vs ripple-grass

ripple-grass vs plantain

plantain and ripple-grass both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plantain	Yes	No	No	No
ripple-grass	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ripple-grass is a hyponym of plantain; that is, ripple-grass 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
ripple-grass: 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, ribwort, 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)	ripple-grass (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 ripple-grass

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