broad-leaved plantain

Questions about broad-leaved plantain

What does broad-leaved plantain mean?

broad-leaved plantain means "North American plantain having reddish leafstalks and broad leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for broad-leaved plantain?

Close synonyms include rugel's plantain, Plantago rugelii, common plantain, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broad-leaved plantain a common word?

broad-leaved plantain is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.