robin's plantain

1. 1.

   common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays

   SynonymsErigeron pulchellus

   Broaderfleabane

Questions about robin's plantain

What does robin's plantain mean?

robin's plantain means "common perennial of eastern North America having flowers with usually violet-purple rays".

What is another word for robin's plantain?

Close synonyms include Erigeron pulchellus. 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 robin's plantain a common word?

robin's 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.