mud plantain vs hydrophyte

mud plantain and hydrophyte both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mud plantain	Yes	No	No	No
hydrophyte	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hydrophyte is a hypernym of mud plantain; that is, hydrophyte is a word with a broader meaning than mud plantain:

mud plantain: grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms
hydrophyte: a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth

Other hypernyms of mud plantain include aquatic plant, hydrophytic plant, water plant.

mud plantain (noun)	hydrophyte (noun)
grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms	a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth