hoary plantain

What does hoary plantain mean?

hoary plantain means "North American annual or biennial with long soft hairs on the leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hoary plantain?

Close synonyms include Plantago virginica, Plantago media. 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 hoary plantain a common word?

hoary 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hoary plantain come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.