plantain vs psyllium

psyllium vs plantain

plantain and psyllium both are nouns.

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

As nouns, psyllium is a hyponym of plantain; that is, 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
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, Spanish psyllium, broad-leaved plantain, Plantago rugelii, rugel's plantain, hoary plantain, Plantago virginica.

plantain (noun)	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 psyllium

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