plantain vs Spanish psyllium

Spanish psyllium vs plantain

plantain and Spanish psyllium both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plantain	Yes	No	No	No
Spanish psyllium	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Spanish psyllium is a hyponym of plantain; that is, Spanish psyllium is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than plantain:

plantain: any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally
Spanish psyllium: plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative

Other hyponyms of plantain include buckthorn, English plantain, narrow-leaved plantain, Plantago lanceolata, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple-grass, broad-leaved plantain, cart-track plant, common plantain, Plantago major, white-man's foot, whiteman's foot, hoary plantain, Plantago media, fleawort, Plantago psyllium, psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain, hoary plantain, Plantago virginica.

plantain (noun)	Spanish psyllium (noun)
starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics	plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics
any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally

Difference between plantain and Spanish psyllium

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