Carmelite vs mendicant

Carmelite and mendicant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Carmelite	Yes	Yes	No	No
mendicant	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, mendicant is a hypernym of Carmelite; that is, mendicant is a word with a broader meaning than Carmelite:

Carmelite: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
mendicant: a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

Other hypernyms of Carmelite include friar.

Carmelite (noun)	mendicant (noun)
a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers	a pauper who lives by begging
	a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

Carmelite (adjective)	mendicant (adjective)
of or relating to the Carmelite friars	practicing beggary