scrounger vs mendicant

scrounger and mendicant both are nouns.

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

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

Other hypernyms of scrounger include beggar.

scrounger (noun)	mendicant (noun)
someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)	a pauper who lives by begging
	a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

scrounger (adjective)	mendicant (adjective)
	practicing beggary