common plantain

1. 1.

   common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed

   Synonymsbroad-leaved plantainwhite-man's footwhiteman's footcart-track plantPlantago major

   Broaderplantain

Questions about common plantain

What does common plantain mean?

common plantain means "common European perennial naturalized worldwide; a troublesome weed".

What is another word for common plantain?

Close synonyms include broad-leaved plantain, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot, cart-track plant, Plantago major. 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 common plantain a common word?

common 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.