plantago

Questions about plantago

What does plantago mean?

plantago means "type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs".

How many syllables are in plantago?

plantago has 3 syllables and divides as plan-ta-go under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for plantago?

Close synonyms include genus Plantago. 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 plantago a common word?

plantago 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.